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The exact nature of our wrongs, Janet Peery

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fiction

The exact nature of our wrongs

Janet Peery

On a summer evening in the blue-collar town of Amicus, Kansas, the Campbell family gathers for a birthday dinner for their ailing patriarch, town judge Abel Campbell, prepared and hosted by their still-hale mother Hattie. But when Billy, the youngest sibling, with a history of addiction, grand ideas, and misdemeanors, passes out in his devil’s food cake, the family takes up the unfinished business of Billy’s sobriety. With knowing humor and sure-handed storytelling, Janet Peery reveals a family at its best and worst, with old wounds and new, its fractures and feuds, and yet its unbreakable bonds