Womens Prize For Fiction Winner
May We Be Forgiven
by A. M. Homes
Summary
A Nixon scholar's life implodes after a family tragedy, leaving him to care for his brother's children and rebuild a sense of decency from the wreckage. Homes mixes pitch black satire with surprising warmth, skewering suburban America while reaching for redemption. The novel asks how an ordinary man might become good after catastrophe.
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Historical Context & Significance
A. M. Homes won for a darkly comic state of the nation novel about contemporary American family life.