May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes

May We Be Forgiven
A.M. Homes

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Published: 2012

Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction

Harry has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George – a taller, smarter and more successful high-flying TV executive – acquire a covetable wife, two kids and a beautiful home. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George has a murderous temper, and when George loses control the result is an act so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives, in which they both must seek absolution.

May we be Forgiven is a dazzling, original, viscerally funny black comedy – a subversion of the American dream. This is a book we want to read again and give to our friends.

Miranda Richardson, Chair of Judges 2013

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