Blame
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Patsy MacLemoore, a twenty-eight-year-old history professor with a brand-new Ph.D. and a wild streak, wakes up in jail — yet again — after another epic alcoholic blackout. This time, though, a mother and daughter are dead, run over in Patsy’s driveway. Patsy will spend the next decades of her life atoning for this unpardonable act. She goes to prison, sobers up, marries a much older man she meets in AA, and makes ongoing amends to her victims’ family. Then, another piece of news turns up, casting her crime, and her life, in a different and unexpected light.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Addresses minutely and with lyricism the questions most of us face in some way in our lifetime: “Was there ever coming back from such actions? Or does a person round some bend and the path back is lost for good?”