{"product_id":"blame-a-novel","title":"Blame: A Novel","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBlame: A Novel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMichelle Huneven\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374114305\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Crichton Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Volumes: \u003c\/b\u003e3\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelle Huneven, Richard Russo once wrote, is \"a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent.\" That talent explodes with her third book, \"Blame,\" a spellbinding novel of guilt and love, family and shame, sobriety and the lack of it, and the moral ambiguities that ensnare us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story: Patsy MacLemoore, a history professor in her late twenties with a brand-new Ph.D. from Berkeley and a wild streak, wakes up in jail--\"yet again\"--after another epic alcoholic blackout. \"Okay, what'd I do?\" she asks her lawyer and jailers. \"I really don't remember.\" She adds, jokingly: \"Did I kill someone?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fact, two Jehovah's Witnesses, a mother and daughter, are dead, run over in Patsy's driveway. Patsy, who was driving with a revoked license, will spend the rest of her life--in prison, getting sober, finding a new community (and a husband) in AA--trying to atone for this unpardonable act.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen, decades later, another unimaginable piece of information turns up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the reader, it is an electrifying moment, a joyous, fall-off-the-couch-with-surprise moment. For Patsy, it is more complicated. Blame must be reapportioned, her life reassessed. What does it mean that her life has been based on wrong assumptions? What can she cleave to? What must be relinquished?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Huneven's first novel, \"Round Rock,\" was published, Valerie Miner, in the \"Los Angeles Times Book Review,\" celebrated Huneven's \"moral nerve, sharp wit and uncommon generosity.\" The same spirit electrifies \"Blame.\" The novel crackles with life--and, like life, can leave you breathless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Sarah Crichton Books","offers":[{"title":"Blame: A Novel | Michelle Huneven | Hardcover | 9780374114305 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1564013","offer_id":48313161121944,"sku":"1564013","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81v_pDyJ6dL.jpg?v=1773162868","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/blame-a-novel","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}