Now restored to print — the acclaimed second novel by the National Book Award-winning author of
Dale Loves Sophie to Death
and
The Evidence Against Her
. Claudia and Avery Parks, lovers since high school, are now in their thirties. Intelligent, charming, sympathetic, they seem to be the ideal couple, the perfect dinner-party guests, almost everything people should be — except responsible. They are causally yet cruelly oblivious to the ways in which their words and actions affect other people, most particularly their talented 11-year-old daughter, who suffers the misfortune of being treated by her parents not as a child but as an equal.
An engrossing domestic tale by a novelist of the first rank — an ideal selection for reading groups. Robb Forman Dew's first novel,
, received the National Book Award in 1982.