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Split estate

Charlotte Bacon

2008290 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2008
first published
  • 2008Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 290 pages · ENGISBN 9780374281830
  • 2009RaincoastISBN 9780312428211

Shortly after his wife, the mother of his two teenage children, ends her life by jumping from the window of their Manhattan apartment, Arthur King decides he must return with his family to his home state of Wyoming. There, his mother welcomes her wounded son and her dereft grandchildren to her much loved, but now quite diminshed, ranch. But how long will they stay?

When and where

ThemesGrief

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