March 2016 selection Contemporary Book Club (We 3/23/16)
I liked this one more than I thought I would, and most of the members agreed.
Bob and Susan are twins. Jim is their elder brother. When Jim was eight and the twins four, they were left alone in the family automobile, and the car backed up and killed their father. It was believed that Bob was at the wheel, but nearly forty years later, Jim confesses that he was really in the driver's seat.
This incident forever warps the emotional lives of the entire family.
Refugees from Somalia are trying to live in the small Maine town of Shirley Falls. This is the dominant sub-theme of the novel.
Zachary, nineteen year old son of Susan, is arrested for throwing the head of a pig into the Somali mosque. Jim and Bob are lawyers and try to handle the case. Jim is well known for his defense of a popular soul singer, and Bob is working in the government sector, and is nowhere near as successful.
Customer reviews at Amazon-
http://www.amazon.com/The-Burgess-Boys-A-Novel/product-reviews/1400067685
Link at wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burgess_Boys
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