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A muchanticipated wickedly funny and sharply observed political satireThis novel of politics and family brings readers to the fault line of American politicsThe New York Times Book Review

Beyond being good or bad the characters in this impressive book are above all things unpredictableWall Street Journal

One family will remake America Even if they fall apart trying AM Homes delivers us back to ourselves in this stunning alternative history that is both terrifyingly prescient deeply tender and devastatingly funny

The Big Guy loves his family money and country Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election he taps a group of likeminded men to reclaim their version of the American Dream As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family His wife Charlotte grieves a life not livedwhile his 18yearold daughter Meghan begins to realize that her favorite subjecthistoryis not exactly what her father taught her

In a story that is as much about the dynamics within a family as it is about the desire for those in power to remain in power Homes presciently unpacks a dangerous rift in American identity prompting a reconsideration of the definitionof truth freedom and democracyand exploring the explosive consequences of what happens when the same words mean such different things to people living together under one roof

From the writer who is always razor sharp and furiously good Zadie Smith a darkly comic political parable braided with a Bildungsroman that takes us inside the heart of a divided country