A. M. Homes Boeken

Harold Silver kijkt al zijn hele leven op tegen zijn jongere broer George. George is langer, slimmer en succesvoller. Hij heeft een begeerlijke vrouw, twee kinderen en een schitterend huis in een buitenwijk. Maar de historicus en Nixon-kenner Harry weet ook dat George een vreselijk opvliegend karakter heeft. Wanneer George een keer echt de controle verliest, heeft dat zulke verstrekkende gevolgen dat de levens van beide broers een volstrekt andere kant op worden gestuwd. De gebeurtenis zorgt ervoor dat Harold plotseling verantwoordelijk is voor de twee kinderen van zijn broer en dat hij ineens aan het hoofd staat van een eenentwintigste-eeuws gezin. 'Vergeef ons' laat zien hoe iemand zichzelf kan verliezen en weer terug kan vinden en beschrijft op onvergetelijke wijze de kracht van persoonlijke verandering. Het is een grootse, tragikomische roman over familie, toeval en verlossing.

A collection of charismatic and humorous stories about the bizarreness of the every-day.

Bored with their lives and tired of their marriage, Paul and Elaine turn a family barbecue into a bonfire and watch their dreams go up in smoke. But will burning down their house solve all their problems?

Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again.

Treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday and caused a major controversy when it was first released in the US

The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his past actions. For his wife and daughter are having their own awakenings self-denying Charlotte enters rehab, and eighteen year old Megan, who has voted for the first time, explores a political future that deviates from her fathers ideology, while delving into deeply buried family secrets.Dark, funny and prescient, The

For Claire Roth, an established psychotherapist with an adoring husband and children, the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, begin to lose their focus when she meets a new patient.

The raucous new novel from the Women's Prize-winning author of May We Be Forgiven: a family portrait that probes the implosion of the American dream, and how we arrived in today's divided world.

Richard is a middle-aged divorcee trading stock out of his home in Los Angeles. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world.

The Safety of Objects is A.M. Homes' debut collection of short stories, showcasing her trademark humor, perversion, and extraordinary storytelling.