May We Be Forgiven A M Homes by A. M. Homes 9780147509703, 014750970X, B007V65ORK instant download after payment.

"A big American story with big American themes" (Elle) from the author of the New York Times–bestselling memoir The Mistress's Daughter

"Homes’ signature trait is a fearless inclination to torment her characters and render their failures, believing that the reader is sophisticated enough – and forgiving enough – to tag along.”  -  Katie Arnold-Ratliff, Time Magazine

In May We Be Forgiven, A. M. Homes gives us a darkly comic look at 21st-century domestic life - at individual lives spiralling out of control, bound together by family and history. The cast of characters experiences adultery, accidents, divorce, and death. But this is also a savage and dizzyingly inventive vision of contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer - the strange jargons of its language, its passive-aggressive institutions, its inhabitants' desperate craving for intimacy and they're pushing it away with litigation, technology, and paranoia. 

"Homes captures the dark side of the American psyche better than any author since John Updike, and the bleakest parts of May We Be Forgiven are shocking in their desperate melancholy...It may sound odd to say this about a book so angry and, at times, gloomy, but May We Be Forgiven is also both a deeply funny, and, finally, hopeful novel... She's undeniably one of our best."  -  Michael Schaub, NPR

At the novel's heart are the spaces in between, where the modern family comes together to re-form itself. May We Be Forgiven explores contemporary orphans losing and finding themselves anew; and it speaks above all to the power of personal transformation - simultaneously terrifying and inspiring.