Life on the Homes front

AM Homes is a writer who tempers bone-dry discomfort and uneasiness with a sharply satirical humour and piercing social commentary.

By Kiran Dass In Books

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14th February, 2013

Book review

Scraping away the pristine gloss of domestic suburban American life to reveal a brutal landscape of anxiety, AM Homes’s novel May We Be Forgiven is a string-snapping insight into family dynamics, dysfunctional relationships and how people relate – or don’t relate – to each other. Aggressive and unhinged television executive George and his ineffectual Nixon scholar brother Harry have a sibling rivalry that dramatically boils over after a tense Thanksgiving Day incident involving George’s wife, Jane. The novel begins with a hiss and a roar and its first 50 pages are packed ...

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