The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield.Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sneakily ambitious as she is unpretentious.Richard Russo Meet the Devohrs Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents wealth but nevertheless finds herself living in their carriage house Gracie, her mother, who claims she can tell your lot in life by looking at your teeth and Bruce, her step-father, stockpiling supplies for the Y2K apocalypse and perpetually late for his tee time. Then theres Violet Devohr, Zees great-grandmother, who they say took her own life somewhere in the vast house, and whose massive oil portrait still hangs in the dining room.
