TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeBoard,Paula Treick
TI  - The fragile world
SN  - 0778316769
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
PB  - MIRA
KW  - Families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Grief
KW  - Revenge
KW  - Sons
KW  - Death
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes a reader's guide
N2  - 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
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