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Lucy considers herself lucky: she has a good job as a systems analyst in the banking industry; her husband, Hal, is chief financial officer for a local mid-size company; their three children are smart and healthy. But tensions lurk under the smooth exterior. The illusions fall away when Lucy unexpectedly becomes pregnant, her husband gets a new job at an untested start-up company and two troubled teens intrude upon their suburban home life. Throughout the next year, both Lucy and Hal struggle with their marriage, their jobs and their children, and come to drastically different conclusions about everything. But it is only when an act of violence rips through the family, does Lucy realize how far apart they really are.
Lucy considers herself lucky: she has a good job as a systems analyst in the banking industry; her husband, Hal, is chief financial officer for a local mid-size company; their three children are smart and healthy. But tensions lurk under the smooth exterior. The illusions fall away when Lucy unex...
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Beth Morgan has published stories in Kelsey Review and Crab Orchard Review where she was a finalist for the Jack Dyer Prize in 2013. She is finishing her second novel, The Con, and is doing research for a historical novel about a piano maker in Vienna at the beginning of the 19th century.
Beth Morgan has published stories in Kelsey Review and Crab Orchard Review where she was a finalist for the Jack Dyer Prize in 2013. She is finishing her second novel, The Con, and is doing research for a historical novel about a piano maker in Vienna at the beginning of the 19th century.
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