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by Kayla Rae Whitaker Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE

A family saga shaped by business and marriage

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A family saga shaped by business and marriage

Set in Kentucky and spanning the 1980s, the novel traces one family’s rise and fall, beginning on Christmas Eve 1979 at a discount department store. Family life and the family business share the frame, bringing together questions of marriage, parenthood, and the complications that arise when work and kinship overlap. The description characterizes the book as tragicomic, placing domestic relationships within the fortunes of a business and the changes unfolding across a decade.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in multigenerational or family-centered fiction.
  • For readers drawn to stories about marriage, parent-child relationships, and family businesses.
  • For readers seeking fiction set in Kentucky and spanning the 1980s.

Themes

Family and businessMarriage and divorceParent-child relationshipsFamily fortunes across time

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Book overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A sweeping novel of one Kentucky family's rise and fall throughout the 1980s--a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the perils of mixing family with business, from the acclaimed author of The Animators

"This is the novel I've been missing: a sprawling, emotional, and true family saga. I fell completely in love with the characters, the story, the setting. All of it. It's damn near perfect."--Ayelet Waldman, author of Love & Treasure

It's December 24, 1979, just before closing at Baker-Taylor's discount department store, and Fran (n
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