Stephanie Kegan
Hardcover | Pages: 300 pages Rating: 3.57 | 993 Users | 187 Reviews
Details Regarding Books Golden State
| Title | : | Golden State |
| Author | : | Stephanie Kegan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 300 pages |
| Published | : | February 17th 2015 by Simon Schuster (first published July 1st 2014) |
| Categories | : | Contemporary. Fiction. Adult. Thriller |
Interpretation Concering Books Golden State
An exquisite literary drama, with a ripped-from-the headlines urgency, Golden State asks hard questions about the limits of loyalty, and what it means to be a sister, a daughter, a wife, and a mother.All her life, Natalie Askedahl has played the part of the good girl. Growing up as the youngest child in one of California’s most prominent political families, she worshipped her big brother, Bobby, a sensitive math prodigy who served as her protector and confidante. But after Bobby left home at sixteen on a Princeton scholarship, something changed between them as Bobby retreated deeper into his own head. Now that Natalie is happily married, with two young daughters, a satisfying job, and a house in the Berkeley Hills, her only real regret is losing Bobby.
Then, a bomb explodes in the middle of her ideal-seeming life. Her brother is accused of carrying out a lethal campaign of terrorism against California’s universities. Thrust into overnight notoriety, Natalie is torn between helping him and protecting her own family. The decisions she makes will send her down a rabbit hole of confusion, lies, and betrayals that threaten to destroy her relationships with everyone she holds dear. As her life splits irrevocably into before and after, what she begins to learn is that some of the most dangerous things in the world are the stories we tell ourselves.
Point Books As Golden State
| Original Title: | Golden State |
| ISBN: | 1476709319 (ISBN13: 9781476709314) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Regarding Books Golden State
Ratings: 3.57 From 993 Users | 187 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books Golden State
This is a beautifully twisted story of a family with deep roots in California's history, with a focus on the now-grown children of political activists. Natalie, the baby, is a suburban mom, teacher, wife of a successful attorney; the opposite of her oldest sister, an off-the-grid hippie type. Neither have seen their troubled brother in years. Bombings at college campuses bring them together, and it seems like none of them want any part of anything that happens in this book. Yet there it is.While I enjoyed Golden State, I wouldn't compare it to We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Shriver's novel tore at my emotions, was far darker, more provacative and disturbing. In Golden State I wanted to delve deeper into the emotional heart of both Natalie and her brilliant brother Bobby. While the reader goes back and forth between past and present, learning how Bobby's promising genius crumbles inside itself, leading to him becoming a bombing suspect things begin to connect.
Great Book! It's rare fiction that puts you inside the head of a character the way 'Golden State' does - - and it's an even rarer book that can bring a social taboo like mental illness + the way families struggle to hide its impact from themselves until its too late - to the fore the way this novel does; 'Golden State' shows how the impact of our earliest connections in life resonate in ways we least expect throughout our adulthood - and, of course, how hard we struggle as grown-ups against
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an opportunity to read an advance copy of Golden State. I liked this book. It looks at what could happen to a family when it turns out that one member has committed a series of horrible crimes out of delusional political beliefs. The story is told from Natalie's perspective, and it is her brother Bobbie who is implicated in a series of university campus bombings. Natalie is torn by a deep sense of love and loyalty to her brother. Sitting on the
Natalie is a third grade teacher at a school she and her husband helped build. Married to a successful lawyer with two daughters, Natalie herself is the daughter of a prominent man in California's history. Her mother and older sister and brother are all still alive, yet none of them are close-knit. When a bomb explodes at a nearby university where Natalie's oldest daughter is on-campus visiting, Natalie takes note of a bomber who has been terrorizing her state for over 10 years. As she reads a
I loved this book! It is totally engrossing and I really just wanted to stay home and read it and find out what happened next, and who did what, and why, and then what......That said, this is a dark novel with twisty moral questions and a difficult story line. A completely compelling read. If you are looking for light n easy, sunshine, happy, happy stuff....look elsewhere. But it is not depressing (at least not to me) it's just dark - and GREAT.
I did not want to read the last couple of pages of this book. I did not want to witness the choices that Natalie had to make. I did not want to watch a family crumble. I wanted to live in my own make believe world of happily ever after. There is no happy when a man is on trial for being a bomber that has killed seven and maimed others. A man that has been a victim of mental illness since he was seventeen years old and a family that has chosen to look the other way until there is no other way to
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