Not a Happy Family Vardiashvili Winner of The Akutawa Prize

Winner of The Akutawa Prize

and build schools

this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel

or—as is suggested to her—a stubborn refusal to make necessary precautions

and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003-04 season

Not a Happy Family Vardiashvili Winner of The Akutawa PrizeIn this family, everyone is keeping secretseven the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered after a fraught Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated. Or are they? They each stand to inherit