In the new family saga of modern classic Joyce Carol Oates (a multiple finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, winner of the O. Henry Award, the National Book Award, and many other prestigious awards), a sudden tragedy tests the strength of seemingly unbreakable family ties. When the patriarch of the family, the former mayor of a town in New York state, becomes a victim of police violence, his wife and all five children react in the most unexpected way, and long-standing family secrets become apparent, and deeply buried psychological catastrophes emerge, and not a single skeleton in the numerous cabinets do not remain undisturbed. The eldest son is ready to do anything to call the “guardians of order” to account, one daughter seeks solace in a bottle, the other in scientific work, and the youngest son in an artistic commune. But the inconsolable widow reacts in the most unexpected, if not scandalous, way... “Truly monumental work - and how timely” (Star Tribune). For the first time in Russian!