May We Be Forgiven : A Novel (Paperback)

from RickGeissal

This is a very difficult book to read because of acts, failures of responsibility and judgment, & failures to act on the part of several characters are extraordinary - even bizarre - & painful. This book is worth the pain of reading it. The author has done a marvelous job conceptualizing the vari...

from Donna828

This book was a mixed bag for me. In a nutshell it was about the unraveling of a family narrated by Harry Silver, a college instructor and Nixon scholar, who tells about an intense year wherein he grows a heart and becomes a family man. In the first 40 pages or so we witness a stolen kiss between...

from kgib

For the first half or more of this book, I wanted to understand what it all meant: comic/satirical portrayals of a mental hospital, Survivor-style corrections program, a boarding school, shadowy Nixon-associated figures. Was it just wackiness for its own sake? By the end, I was invested in the ch...

from Brianna_H

One of the best books read all year. The story told by Ms. Homes was extremely engaging and compelling. May We Be Forgiven is one of those novels that you never want to end. I feel as if I could go on reading about these characters lives forever and was sad to be "seeing" the end of them at the n...

from madforbooks

This novel expresses a lot of truth that offers no apologies for acknowledging and then constructing a clear image of the good, the bad and the terrifying aspects of how a large segment of current culture has devolped in the US post Kennedy era affected by the progression of the hopeful, yet conf...