
A haunting literary drama, with a ripped-from-the headlines urgency reminiscent of Defending Jacob and Sue Miller’s While I Was Gone, Golden State asks hard questions about the limits of loyalty and the bounds of family ties.Growing up in the 1960s in one of California’s most prominent political families, Natalie Askedahl worshipped her big brother, Bobby, a sensitive math prodigy who served as he...
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (February 17, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1476709319
ISBN-13: 978-1476709314
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 1549115
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In a book reminiscent of a Jodi Picoult novel, Stephanie Kegan creates a page- turner which questions loyalty and family to its core.Natalie, a married mother of two living a very comfortable life, has to decide what to do when she suspects her estra...
and confidante. But after Bobby left home at sixteen on a Princeton scholarship, something changed between them. Now that Natalie is happily married, with a career and two young daughters, her only real regret is losing Bobby.Then, a bomb explodes in the middle of her seemingly ideal life. Her oldest daughter is on the Stanford campus when one person is killed and another maimed. Other bombings follow across California. Frightened for her family, Natalie grows obsessed with the case until she makes an unthinkable discovery: the bomber’s manifesto reads alarmingly like the last letter she has from Bobby.Unsure of whom to sacrifice and whom to protect, Natalie is confronted with a terrible choice that will send her down a rabbit hole of confusion, lies, and betrayals. As her life splits irrevocably into before and after, she begins to learn that some of the most dangerous things in the world are the stories we tell ourselves.