Purple America
Author: Rick Moody
Purple America begins in a bathtub and ends in Long Island Sound. In between, Rick Moody’s latest novel explores the landscape of a family in crisis. Dexter (Hex) Raitliffe, a freelance publicist, returns home to care for his mother, Billie, who is dying by inches of a neurological disease that will rob her of motion, of speech, and finally of thought. Billie’s second husb….Read More
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