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Author:

Culliton, Emily,.

Title:

The misfortune of Marion Palm : a novel / by Emily Culliton.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A Knopf

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

pages cm.

Subject:

FICTION / Family Life.
FICTION / Contemporary Women.
Female offenders--Fiction.
Embezzlement--Fiction.
FICTION / Humorous.
Humorous stories.
family life--Fiction.

Summary:

"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. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. But, now, when the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0525432620 (paperback)
9780525432623 (paperback)
1524731900 (hardback)
9781524731908 (hardback)

LCCN:

2017006599

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