Synopsis
Patsy MacLemoore is a successful history professor known for her wit, brains, and heart. But then one morning she wakes up in a jail cell after a blackout night of binge drinking, and is horrified to learn that she has run over and killed a mother and child. Michelle Huneven creates a vivid portrait of a woman brought low by drink and guilt, who slowly begins the road to recovery and forgiveness, a process complicated when she becomes involved in the life of the man whose wife and daughter she killed.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2009-09-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 291 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
Waking up in jail after an alcoholic blackout, history professor Patsy McLemoore learns that she accidentally killed two people, an event for which she spends decades atoning and transforming her life for the better before learning a perspective-changing truth. By the Whiting Writers'-winning author of Round Rock. 50,000 first printing.
Industry Reviews
"Brilliant observations, excellent characters, spiffy dialogue and a clever plot keep readers hooked....Huneven's exploration of misdeeds real and imagined is humane, insightful and beautiful." (starred review)
(05/18/2009)
"Huneven turns complicated moral issues into utterly riveting reading in this beautifully written story of remorse and redemption." (starred review)
(07/01/2009)
"[BLAME] combines the compulsive pleasures of a page-turner and the deeper satisfaction of true, thoughtful literature."
(09/04/2009)
"The satisfactions BLAME offers readers are elegant prose and, deeper than that aesthetic pleasure, the intelligence and compassion Huneven brings to her characters. She holds them all with the utmost tenderness."
(09/06/2009)
"Michelle Huneven tells this story with a riveting sense of drama, and she deftly steers away from soap-operatic temptations....[A]s we watch [Patsy, the protagonist,] confront the bleakness that has enveloped her life, the effort of keeping up with [her] is handsomely rewarded."
(09/12/2009)
"Huneven makes Patsy's story unfold like a thriller, creating a sense of urgency and mystery even about everyday matters....[Her] prose moves like a hummingbird, in small bursts that are improbably fast and graceful."
(09/25/2009)
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