TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwarz,Liese O'Halloran
TI  - What could be saved: a novel 
SN  - 1982150610
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atria Books
KW  - Brothers and sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Swindlers and swindling
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Intelligence officers
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Bangkok (Thailand)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - In a story alternating between the past and present, Laura Preston flies to Thailand to meet a stranger claiming to be her lost brother, who disappeared when the Preston family lived in Bangkok forty years ago; Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Bea's warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. Bangkok, 1972: Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US: ballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home. But Robert works for American intelligence, and as Genevieve finds herself drawn into a passionate affair with her husband's boss their serene household is vulnerable to unseen dangers in a rapidly changing world and a country they don't really understand. -- adapted from jacket
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