"...A compulsively readable tour de force." --The Wall Street
Journal
New York Times Book Review* recommends M.T. Edvardsson's A Nearly
Normal Family and lauds it as a "page-turner" that forces the reader
to confront "the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we
believe our beloveds expect." (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading
Issue)**
When the teenage daughter of responsible, upstanding parents is
accused of murder, a family realizes that it isn't love that will keep
them together: it's lies.
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of
a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from
a respectable local family. What reason could she have to know a shady
businessman, let alone to kill him?
Told in an unusual three-part structure, this gripping, domestic drama
pushes a family to its limits. The father, a pastor, believes his
daughter can only be innocent, despite mounting evidence. The mother, a
defense attorney, believes no one is telling the truth. And the
daughter, desperate for her dreams of the future, believes no one
understands how far she is willing to go.
In this complex, multi-layered novel, every character's loyalty and
morality is tested. Are we duty-bound to defend our family, even with
the evidence against them? Is anyone who they seem on the surface? And
what are we willing to compromise to keep our lives, as we know them,
intact?
