As Victor fades, the family’s dysfunction comes to light and they make drastic choices about their future. Gary’s wife, Twyla, slips into a nervous breakdown during a cosmetic shopping spree, slowly revealing the true root of her distress. Victor’s son Gary, who is in Los Angeles to jump-start his career in the movies, avoids answering calls from the family and intentionally misses his flight. His daughter, Alex, flies in from Chicago, desperate to know the truth about Victor’s criminal past, and begrudges her mother’s insistence she let it go and make peace. His wife, Barbra, still annoyed about leaving their Connecticut mansion, occupies herself with obsessive walking while remembering Victor’s quick transition from shy suitor to abusive tyrant. During his final, lingering day, his family mentally rehashes key moments of his life in hopes of understanding the man they are losing. Shady real estate developer Victor Tuchman suffers a heart attack in New Orleans and is rushed to the hospital. A patriarch’s death strains a family’s already fraught relationships in this dazzling novel from Attenberg ( All Grown Up).
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