BABY OF THE FAMILY: A Novel

Dutton, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this book "AS NEW" - a small red remainder dot bottom edges at spine - other wise, NEW. UNREAD 2019 Dutton large hardcover, first edition, first printing. B&W genealogy chart. CONTENT: A wry and addictive debut about a modern-day American dynasty and its unexpected upheaval when the patriarch wills his dwindling fortune to his youngest, adopted son-setting off a chain of events that unearths secrets and tests long-held definitions of love and family. The money is old, the problems are new. Meet the Whitbys: an American dynasty once inundated with ungodly real estate wealth and now facing a new millennium of unfamiliar obstacles. There was a time when the death of a Whitby would have made national news, but when the family patriarch, Roger, dies, he is alone. Word of his death travels from the long-suffering family lawyer to Roger's clan of children (from four different marriages), and the outlook isn't good. Roger has left everything to his twenty-one-year-old son Nick, a Whitby only in name-and Nick is nowhere to be found. Weaving together multiple perspectives to create a portrait of the American dream gone awry, Baby of the Family is a vivid, absorbing debut about family secrets and how they define us, bind us together, and threaten to blow us apart.