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\n"...A compulsi vely readable tour de force." --The Wall Street Journal
\nNew York T imes Book Review \;recommends M.T. Edvardsson's \;A Nearly \;N ormal Family \;and lauds it as a "page-turner" that forces the reader to confront "the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we be lieve our beloveds expect." (NYTimes Book Review \;Summer Reading Issu e)
\nWhen the teenage daughter of responsible\, upstanding parents i s accused of murder\, a family realizes that it isn't love that will keep them together: it's lies.
\nEighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from a respectable local family. What reason coul d she have to know a shady businessman\, let alone to kill him?
\nTo ld in an unusual three-part structure\, this gripping\, domestic drama pus hes a family to its limits. The father\, a pastor\, believes his daughter can only be innocent\, despite mounting evidence. The mother\, a defense a ttorney\, believes no one is telling the truth. And the daughter\, despera te for her dreams of the future\, believes no one understands how far she is willing to go.
\nIn this complex\, multi-layered novel\, every ch aracter's loyalty and morality is tested. Are we duty-bound to defend our family\, even with the evidence against them? Is anyone who they seem on t he surface? And what are we willing to compromise to keep our lives\, as w e know them\, intact?
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