04284cam a2200793 4500 587560354 TxAuBib 20220722120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385351423 0385351429 B00G1J1C92 Amazon b94bb6db-7d35-4e5f-99df-ae9729304b96 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1436030 OverDrive (Product ID) 232012 232012 232012 TxAuBib Simpson, Mona. Casebook [Libby eBook] : A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2791kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. book club recommendations. gifts for history buffs. realistic fiction books. gifts for book lovers. mothers day books. mothers day gifts. gifts for writers. literary fiction. books for women. gifts for women. Coming of age. fiction books. gifts for men. gifts for mom. gifts for her. books fiction. Mother's Day. poetry books. fathers day. mothers day. Friendship. motherhood. resistance. Gift Books. literature. gift ideas. mom gifts. dad gifts. romance. Writing. Fiction. mothers. Divorce. family. mother. novels. Drama. HTML:From the acclaimed and award-winning author of <i>Anywhere But Here</i> and <i>My Hollywood,</i> a powerful new novel about a young boy’s quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents’ lives. And even then he can’t stop searching.<br /> <br /> Miles Adler-Hart starts eavesdropping to find out what his mother is planning for his life. When he learns instead that his parents are separating, his investigation deepens, and he enlists his best friend, Hector, to help. Both boys are in thrall to Miles’s unsuspecting mother, Irene, who is “pretty for a mathematician.” They rifle through her dresser drawers, bug her telephone lines, and strip-mine her computer, only to find that all clues lead them to her bedroom, and put them on the trail of a mysterious stranger from Washington, D.C.<br /> <br /> Their amateur detective work starts innocently but quickly takes them to the far reaches of adult privacy as they acquire knowledge that will affect the family’s well-being, prosperity, and sanity. Burdened with this powerful information, the boys struggle to deal with the existence of evil and concoct modes of revenge on their villains that are both hilarious and naïve. Eventually, haltingly, they learn to offer animal comfort to those harmed and to create an imaginative path to their own salvation.<br /> <br /> <i>Casebook</i> brilliantly reveals an American family both coming apart at the seams and, simultaneously, miraculously reconstituting itself to sustain its members through their ultimate trial. Mona Simpson, once again, demonstrates her stunning mastery, giving us a boy hero for our times whose story remains with us long after the novel is over.<br /> <br /> <br /> This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-21 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/casebook-b94bb6?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/casebook-b94bb6?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/casebook-b94bb6?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)