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Blame
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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $21.99
ISBN13: 9780312429850
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: May 25 2010
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
A woman faces the many complicated consequences of a drunk-driving accident in Michelle Huneven's gripping third novel, Blame.
Patsy MacLemoore, a twenty-eight-year-old history professor with a brand-new Ph.D. and a wild streak, wakes up in jail--yet again--after another epic alcoholic blackout. This time, though, a mother and daughter are dead, run over in Patsy's driveway. Patsy will the next decades of her life atoning for this unpardonable act. She goes to prison, sobers up, marries a much older man she meets in AA, and makes ongoing amends to her victims' family. Then, another piece of news turns up, casting her crime, and her life, in a different and unexpected light. Brilliant, morally complex, and often funny, Blame is a breathtaking story of contrition and what it takes to rebuild a life from the bottom up.
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