Split Estate, (Paperback)

from coppers

After the suicide of his wife, a father moves with his two teenage children from Manhattan to the place of his youth, a small town in Wyoming, to stay with his mother. Each long chapter is told from the viewpoint of a different family member and each has their own unique story to tell of how they...

from jsiegcola

From its "split" cover illustration to its "split" chapters, the author, Charlotte Bacon, has fine-tuned the art of prose while dealing with a number of characters, locations, and points of view in her novel, "Split Estate". Though the title has its literal meaning, a reference to many Western ra...

from sharlene_w

The author has a gift for describing both scenery and emotions as well as creating characters that I grew to care about. Each character handled grief and loss in their own way, learning as they went along how to deal with the tremendous shock of suicide in their family. The emotions were real and...

from grigoro

A powerful, quiet novel about the lives of the King family after Laura King inexplicitly jumps to her death from their tenth floor NYC apartment. Arthur King and his two teenage children have difficulty coping and he decides to relocate the family to Wyoming to live with his mother on the family ...

from nyiper

Talk about getting pulled right into the emotions of the characters---this is the way, from the first page of Split Estate. Beautifully written but heart-wrenching. You want to see this family "work," but it is so hard as the feelings of each of them are laid out--- like puzzle pieces that you ju...