The fragile world /
DeBoard, Paula Treick,
The fragile world / Paula Treick DeBoard. - 415 pages : 21 cm
Includes a reader's guide.
The Kaufmans have always considered themselves a normal, happy family. Curtis is a physics teacher at a local high school. His wife, Kathleen, restores furniture for upscale boutiques. Daniel is away at college on a prestigious music scholarship, and twelve-year-old Olivia is a happy-go-lucky kid whose biggest concern is passing her next math test. And then comes the middle-of-the-night phone call that changes everything. Daniel has been killed in what the police are calling a "freak" road accident, and the remaining Kaufmans are left to flounder in their grief. The anguish of Daniel's death is isolating, and it's not long before this once-perfect family finds itself falling apart. As time passes and the wound refuses to heal, Curtis becomes obsessed with the idea of revenge, a growing mania that leads him to pack up his life and his anxious teenage daughter and set out on a collision course to right a wrong.
0778316769 9780778316763
GBB4B4989 bnb
016892219 Uk
Families--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Sons--Death--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Suspense fiction.
The fragile world / Paula Treick DeBoard. - 415 pages : 21 cm
Includes a reader's guide.
The Kaufmans have always considered themselves a normal, happy family. Curtis is a physics teacher at a local high school. His wife, Kathleen, restores furniture for upscale boutiques. Daniel is away at college on a prestigious music scholarship, and twelve-year-old Olivia is a happy-go-lucky kid whose biggest concern is passing her next math test. And then comes the middle-of-the-night phone call that changes everything. Daniel has been killed in what the police are calling a "freak" road accident, and the remaining Kaufmans are left to flounder in their grief. The anguish of Daniel's death is isolating, and it's not long before this once-perfect family finds itself falling apart. As time passes and the wound refuses to heal, Curtis becomes obsessed with the idea of revenge, a growing mania that leads him to pack up his life and his anxious teenage daughter and set out on a collision course to right a wrong.
0778316769 9780778316763
GBB4B4989 bnb
016892219 Uk
Families--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Sons--Death--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Suspense fiction.