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The Condition explores one turbulent year in the lives of the McKotches,a New England family in extremis. Paulette and Frank McKotch, long divorced, hide a mountain of old grievances from their three adult children who are busy with crises of their own. Billy, the eldest, is a successful Manhattan cardiologist living a double life. Scott the youngest has made an endless series of wrong turns. And Gwen, the daughter, lives a hermitic life far away from her parents. The family attributes her reclusive temperament to her Turner′s syndrome, a chromosomal disorder that has left her with the stature and physical maturity of an eleven year old child. From the day it was diagnosed, Gwen′s condition has caused an explosive disagreement between her parents. Frank is fascinated by the clinical manifestations of Turner′s-a scientific interest that horrifies Paulette, who sees Gwen′s condition as nothing short of calamity.
As Christmas 1997 approaches, Frank, a prominent medical researcher, is on the brink of a big discovery when an old rival reappears. Billy′s secret life implodes, and Scott becomes obsessed with roads not taken. And Gwen, in her thirties, falls in love for the first time, a development the whole family views with alarm.
The Condition looks at the power of science and its profound limitations, the determining reality of biology and the power of individual will. Mostly, though, it is a story about parents and children and siblings: the people we love but didn′t chose-and in many cases, wouldn′t have the complex and bewildering web of loyalties and resentments that take a lifetime to form.
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Faith
In FAITH, Jennifer Haigh explores the repercussions of one family′s history of silence, when a priest′s sex scandal forces his family′s untold past to surface. Art, Sheila, and Mike are siblings in a large extended Irish-American family from the Boston suburbs...
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The Condition
The Condition explores one turbulent year in the lives of the McKotches,a New England Family in extremis. Paulette and Frank McKotch, long divorced, hide a mountain of old grievances from their three adult children who are busy with crises of their own.Billy,the eldest,is a...
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What Happened to Hannah
By Mary Kay McComas
As a teenager, Hannah Benson ran away from home in order to save herself. Now, twenty years later, the past comes calling and delivers life-changing news: her mother and sister have passed away, leaving Hannah the guardian of her fifteen-year-old niece. Returning home to bitter memories and...
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Budapest Noir
By Vilmos Kondor
The passing of the Hungarian prime minister before he could realize his dream of a fascist state has little effect on crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon. Life—and death—go on in the bustling old city, and a late-night tip soon leads him to a crime scene where a young woman lies dead, a...
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The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1
By Joseph Gordon-Levitt
From hitRECord, the immensely popular open collaborative production company, and its founder, Golden Globe-nominated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, comes The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1 . The universe is not made of atoms; it’s made of tiny stories. To create The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories:...
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