"Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly
intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with
big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above
all else, family." -- Washington Post
From New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an
engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where
secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed.
Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by
their loving possessive and ambitions father. As the former mayor of
Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see is sons in politics, a dream the boys
have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England
snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and
her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his
children--all his children--safe.
Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum
of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic Priests
in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can
coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include
people you've never even met. As an in her bestselling novel, Bel
Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate
lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving
narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a
novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to
protect our children.
