Martin Kreutzel and his ill sister, Elizabeth, are as close as grown siblings can be-they have an essential connection. However, she lives with her husband outside of London and he lives with his wife and two children in a small Pennsylvania college town where he and his wife are both professors. Neither one of them likes the atmosphere there but they both have tenure track positions and can raise their two children in a safe neighborhood, in a house they can own. As Elizabeth's cancer worsens, Martin's love for her cripples his abilities at work and at home. When Elizabeth's husband, Richard, disappears for a few days, and one of Martin's students hangs herself, Martin finds himself torn between serving his sister and being a good husband, father, and professor. After Martin makes a trip to London to be with his sister, the situation gets stranger, alarming even, when Richard returns and whisks his wife off for the day, disappearing again, except this time he takes Elizabeth with him. Leebron's compelling third novel brings us into the world of domestic unease as two couples and their joined families wrestle with empathy's limitations in the uncompromising teeth of mortality.

In the Middle of All This

Literature & Fiction

Leebron, Fred G.

Contemporary

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Taking a job as a night clerk at a seedy San Francisco hotel, ex-convict Benjamin West meets up with Amber, an L.A. fugitive on the run after torching her ex-boyfriend's apartment, an encounter that leads to murder when Amber's ex turns up dead

Out West (Harvest Book)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Mariner Books

A disturbing novel of domestic unease, part thriller and part psychological drama, from a young American writer of exceptional talent. Warner Lutz isn't sure how he got where he is, but he's not especially happy to be there: mid-thirties, married, two kids, dead-end job in fund-raising, small house, old Honda. He and his wife, Megan, have just moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, a town that is booming with new money-but the Lutzes aren't part of the new affluence. Megan's job might be in jeopardy, and one of their children seems to be slipping badly in school. Things go from bad to worse when Megan is brutally attacked, and Warner emerges as the prime suspect. In the way that the film American Beauty touched a nerve in America, and pierced with the realism and emotional honesty of Raymond Carver's stories, Fred Leebron's latest novel is a powerful and deeply disturbing story of a family caught in complex, ambiguous turmoil.

Six Figures

Genre Fiction

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