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Aug 8, 2017 · Their two daughters, 13 year-old, Ginny and 8 year-old, Jane like to climb the tree in the backyard and peer into other people's homes. One day, Marion Palm decides to leave her husband and children behind in Brooklyn Heights. She stuffs the $40,000 she has left from the $180,000 into one of her daughters' knapsacks.
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Aug 8, 2017 · Readers who have wished the narration of The Royal Tenenbaums was an actual book need look no further than The Misfortune of Marion Palm." — Kathy Sexton, Booklist (Starred Review) "Talk about getting away from it all. Marion Palm has pocketed $180,000 from her daughters' school coffers and gone on the lam, no disguise necessary.
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About The Misfortune of Marion Palm. Entertainment Weekly Best Debut Novels 2017 A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children’s private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her.
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Aug 31, 2017 · THE MISFORTUNE OF MARION PALM By Emily Culliton 282 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $25.95. Half of the delight in Emily Culliton’s wholly delightful debut novel, “The Misfortune of Marion Palm,” lies ...
Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment.
Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment.
Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment.
