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Aug 8, 2017 · 3.14. 3,422 ratings556 reviews. 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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- Hardcover
- Emily Culliton
Aug 8, 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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- Emily Culliton
When the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from her basement and runs. Leaving her husband and two daughters to grapple with the consequences of her crime, and the mother-shaped hole in their house, Marion is on the lam, hiding in plain sight.
- Emily Culliton
- Paperback
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...
Jun 26, 2018 · 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.
- $11.99
- 9780.5B
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- 06/26/2018
Told from the points of view of Nathan, Marion's husband, heir to a long-diminished family fortune; Ginny, Marion's teenage daughter who falls helplessly in love at the slightest provocation; Jane, Marion's youngest who is obsessed with a missing person of her own; and Marion herself, on the lam--and hiding in plain sight"-- Notes.
The Misfortune of Marion Palm. Emily Culliton. Knopf, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-524-73190-8. Culliton’s wonderful and sharp debut novel invites readers into the mind and motivations of an...
