The Laments

Action & Adventure Literary Fiction

Author: George Hagen

Meet the Laments—the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen’s exuberant debut novel.Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto “Laments move!” His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband’s oddly peripatetic nature with unexpected aspirations of her own. And Will is the “waif with a pa….Read More

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