Music for Torching
Author: A.M. Homes
Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with ‘making things good again’, they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens well and truly out of control. As A. M. Homes’s incendiary novel unfolds, the Kodacolor hues of the American good life become nearly hallucino….Read More
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