{"product_id":"may-we-be-forgiven-9780147509703","title":"May We Be Forgiven","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Women's Prize and featured on Elin Hilderbrand's \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e ballot for Best Books of the Century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George has a murderous temper, and when George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both must seek absolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Harry finds himself suddenly playing parent to his brother's two adolescent children, tumbling down the rabbit hole of Internet sex, dealing with aging parents who move through time like travelers on a fantastic voyage. As Harry builds a twenty-first-century family created by choice rather than biology, we become all the more aware of the ways in which our history, both personal and political, can become our destiny and either compel us to repeat our errors or be the catalyst for change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eMay We Be Forgiven\u003c\/i\u003e is an unnerving, funny tale of unexpected intimacies and of how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA. M. Homes is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Mistress's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e and the novels \u003ci\u003eThis Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJack, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as the story collections \u003ci\u003eDays of Awe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Safety of Objects\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThings You Should Know\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555979235602,"sku":"9780147509703","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9daefdc9-3e08-4273-9577-65468a91c231.jpg?v=1731746297","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/may-we-be-forgiven-9780147509703","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}