ThisBeautiful Life is a gripping potent and blisteringly well-written story offamily dilemma and consequenceI read this book with white-knuckledurgency and I finished it in tears Helen Schulman is an absolutely brilliantnovelist Elizabeth Gilbert author of Eat Pray LoveTheevents of a single night shatter one familys sense of security and identity inthis provocative and deeply affecting domestic drama from Helen Schulman theacclaimed author of A Day at the Beach and Out of Time In thetradition of Lionel Shriver Sue Miller and Laura Moriarty Schulman crafts abrilliantly observed portrait of parenting and modern life cunningly exploringour most deeply-held convictions and revealing the enduring strengths thatemerge in the face of crisis
