The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs : A Novel

from kremsa

I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway and found it hard to decide whether I wanted to give it 3 stars or 4. The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs is a novel that explores the familial relationships of Hattie and Abel and their 4 surviving children and what seems to be a dysfunctional family. As Abel i...

from lostinalibrary

Even a hundred years past the town's founding a visitor to Amicus might guess it had been laid out by rival drunks. This is the opening sentence of author Janet Peery's novel The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs and a metaphor for the Campbell family, the protagonists of the novel. This is a story abo...

from PamV

This is definitely a winner! It is so telling of what is happening in families today. It is frustrating, heartbreaking and completely believable.My thanks to netgalley and St Martins Press for this advanced readers copy.

from susan0316

This is the first book that I've read by Janet Peery and I want to thank goodreads for a copy to read and review. This is a wonderful family drama that looks into the dynamics of a family and tries to help us understand why the family members act like they do. It's a family made up of parents Hat...

from fhudnell

I liked the first two chapters of this book but it was downhill for me after that. The five surviving, middle aged children of Hattie and Abel were so full of grudges against each other and their father that I just didn't care to read about them any more and stopped at the 30% point. Abel was a s...