The Hole We're In
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow a bold timeless novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America. Equal parts sharply funny and sobering Zevins portrait of a family in financial free fall captures the zeitgeist.People Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a Texas college town. Roger the patriarch has impulsively gone back to school while his wife Georgia has been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months. In an attempt to climb out of the holes theyve dug Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three childrenespecially for Patsy the youngest who will spend most of her life fighting to overcome them. The Hole Were In shines a spotlight on over-reliance on credit gender and class politics and the war in Iraq but it is Zevins deft exploration of the fragile economy of family life that makes this a book for the ages.
