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The Responsible Party: A Novel
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Geek Love Meets Sam Lipsyte In This Rollicking, Hilarious Debut Novel About A Family Of Unforgettable Women Obsessed With Securing Their Legacyclaire Grew Up With The Legend Of The Unsinkable Mounsey Women. Her GreatGreatGrandmother Fanny Made Headlines In 1915 For Washing Ashore In England Nearly A Year After Her Ship Sank. FannyS Daughter Sarah Went To Collect Her Mother On The Equally IllFated LusitaniaWhose Sinking She, Too, Survived. Their Improbable Endurance Led To Regional Stardom On The Midwestern Vaudeville Circuit. But Claire Never Knew The Full StoryUntil Now.Listless, Jobless, And Recently Canceled For Extolling SkinCare Advice Online That Sent A Reader To The Hospital, Claire Is Surprised When A Knock At The Door Turns Out To Be The Police, Looking For Answers About A Murder From The 1970S They Suspect Her Mother, Kath, May Know Something About. As The Cops Zero In, Claire Demands Answers From Her Mother.KathS Comically Long Response, Which Blossoms Into The Story Of The Mounseys And Their Descendants Writ Large, Moves From A Liverpudlian Poorhouse At The Onset Of World War I To A Lake Michigan Lighthouse In 1971 (When Sex Was Freer And McdonaldS Fried Their Potatoes With Beef Tallow) To PresentDay Chicagoland; Along The Way, It Offers Claire A Richer Understanding Of What She Inherited From The Complicated, Resilient Women She Descends From.Replete With Inappropriately Old Boyfriends, Dubious Medical Professionals, And More Than A Few Boats, The Responsible Party Is The Story Of Several Women, In Several Different Timelines, Trying To Stay Afloat.
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