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"With The Hole We're In-a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America-award-winning author and screenwriter, Gabrielle Zevin, delivers a work that places her in the ranks of our shrewdest social observers and top literary talents. Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his future ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things afloat at home, but she's been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and never manages to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children-especially for Patsy, the youngest, who will spend most of her life fighting to overcome them. The Hole We're In shines a spotlight on some of the most relevant issues of today: over-reliance on credit, gender and class politics, and the war in Iraq. But it is Zevin's deft exploration of the fragile economy of family life that makes this a book for the ages"--
About the author
Gabrielle Zevin is the
New York Times and internationally bestselling author of several critically acclaimed novels, including
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and
Young Jane Young. Her most recent novel is
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, one of the
New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, a selection of the
Tonight Show's Fallon Book Blub, the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and one of the best books of the year according to the
New York Times, the
Washington Post,
Time,
Entertainment Weekly,
The Atlantic,
Oprah Daily,
Slate, NPR, and many others. She has also written books for young readers, including
Elsewhere, which
Time magazine named one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time. Her novels have been translated into forty languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
Summary
With The Hole We’re Ina bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled Americaaward-winning author and screenwriter, Gabrielle Zevin, delivers a work that places her in the ranks of our shrewdest social observers and top literary talents. Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his future ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things afloat at home, but she’s been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and never manages to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they’ve dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three childrenespecially for Patsy, the youngest, who will spend most of her life fighting to overcome them. The Hole We’re In shines a spotlight on some of the most relevant issues of today: over-reliance on credit, gender and class politics, and the war in Iraq. But it is Zevin’s deft exploration of the fragile economy of family life that makes this a book for the ages.
