The Misfortune of Marion Palm A Novel Format: Paperback

Description: Entertainment Weekly Best Debut Novels 2017

A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her.

Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather a woman who embezzles. Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her children’s private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator they had to have, and state-of-the-art exercise equipment, gathering dust. When the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from her basement and runs. Leaving her husband and two daughters to grapple with the consequences of her crime, and the mother-shaped hole in their house, Marion is on the lam, hiding in plain sight. Brilliantly skewering the mores of a status-obsessed society, and perfectly capturing the spirit of bourgeois Brooklyn Heights, this wildly entertaining debut novel features a “bad mom” you can’t help but love..

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Narrative Type: book

Type: book

Intended Audience: General/trade

Book Title: Misfortune of Marion Palm : a Novel

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Topic: Contemporary Women, Family Life, Crime, Humorous / General

Item Height: 0.7 in

Publication Year: 2018

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 7.9 Oz

Author: Emily Culliton

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.2 in

Book Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback