| Description |
9 discs (approx. 690 min.) digital; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Read by Cassandra Campbell. |
| Summary |
After a local schoolteacher is arrested, a community becomes biterly divided, as one family faces a painful dilemma: How do you defend someone you ove, while wrestling with the possibility of his guilt? The Woodburys cherish life in the affluent, bucolic suburb of Avalon Hills, Connenticut. George is a beloved science teacher at the local prep school. and his wife, Joan, is a hardworking ER nurse. They have brought up their children in this thriving town of wooded yeards and sprawling lakes. Then one night a police car pulls up to the Woodbury home and George is charged with sexual misconduct with students from his daughter's school. As he sits in prison awaiting trial and claiming innocence, Joan vaults between denial and rage as friends and neighbors turn cold. Their daughter, seventeen-year-old Satie, is a popular high school senior who becomes a social outcast- and finds refuge in an unexpected place. Her brother, Andrew, a lawyer in New York, returns hom e to support the family, only to confront unhappy memories from his past. A writer tries to exploit their story, while an unlikely men's rights activist group attempts to recruit Sadie for their cause. |
| Subject |
Rape -- Fiction
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Families -- Fiction
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Teachers -- Fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Campbell, Cassandra.
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| Other Form: |
Whittall, Zoe, author. Best kind of people. (CaOONL)20169008452 |
| ISBN |
9780525494140 |
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