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The Hole We're In

by Gabrielle Zevin
Mara Wilson
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With The Hole We're In-a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America-award-winning author and screenwriter, Gabrielle Zevin, delivers a work that places her in the ranks of our shrewdest social observers and top literary talents. Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his future ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things afloat at home, but she's been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and never manages to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children-especially for Patsy, the youngest, who will spend most of her life fighting to overcome them. The Hole We're In shines a spotlight on some of the most relevant issues of today: over-reliance on credit, gender and class politics, and the war in Iraq. But it is Zevin's deft exploration of the fragile economy of family life that makes this a book for the ages.

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  • Release date

    February 21, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781696610971
      • File size: 260435 KB
      • Duration: 09:02:34

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      June 10, 2024

      Zevin (Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow) follows the ups and downs of a family on the brink of financial and personal disaster. Roger Pomeroy, a former Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, goes back to school to earn a doctorate, leaving his wife, Georgia, to support the family. Her plan is to live on credit, even opening credit cards in her children's names. Meanwhile, their eldest daughter, Helen, is getting married, and their youngest daughter, Patsy, joins the army to pay for college. Roger and Georgia turn to their strict faith for comfort, but it is a source of contention for the adult children, who must decide how many of their parents' beliefs they are willing to take on. The family ends up in one predicament after another; their lives are messy and exasperating but also deeply relatable. Wilson's narration conveys the humor and compassion in Zevin's story as she portrays one perspective and another throughout the family's travails. VERDICT Though the Pomeroys are profoundly flawed and often misguided, they are characters to root for. A sensitive and astute book that is recommended for fans of Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest or Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere.--Laura Trombley

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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