All the Houses: A Novel

After her father has a heart attack and subsequent surgery, Helen Atherton returns to her hometown of Washington, D.C., to help take care of him and, perhaps more honestly, herself. She's been living in Los Angeles, trying to work in Hollywood, slowly spiraling into a depression fueled by hours spent watching C-SPAN-her obsession with politics a holdover from a childhood interrupted by her father's involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. "I don't know whether to think of him as a coconspirator or a complicit bystander or just someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time."Though the rest of the world has forgotten that scandal, the Atherton family never quite recovered. With sharp, witty, and suspenseful prose, All the House reveals their story, as Helen tries to piece together the political moves that pulled her family apart. - For readers of Meg Wolitzer

Author: Karen Olsson

Publisher: Picador

Publication Date: Apr 11, 2017

Number of Pages: 416 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Fiction

ISBN-10: 1250097436

ISBN-13: 9781250097439