"A sweeping novel of one Southern family's rise and fall throughout the 1980s-a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the promise and limitations of the American Dream, from the acclaimed author of The Animators It's December 24, 1979, just before closing at Baker-Taylor's, and Fran (n???ee Baker) is surveying her domain. Her husband, Fred, is charming customers in the front of the store, while last-minute shoppers in the toy aisle are fighting over the lone remaining Atari. The older ...
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"A sweeping novel of one Southern family's rise and fall throughout the 1980s-a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the promise and limitations of the American Dream, from the acclaimed author of The Animators It's December 24, 1979, just before closing at Baker-Taylor's, and Fran (n???ee Baker) is surveying her domain. Her husband, Fred, is charming customers in the front of the store, while last-minute shoppers in the toy aisle are fighting over the lone remaining Atari. The older Taylor kids are on register, while the younger ones' chaos is contained to the stockroom. All is right in the world as the new decade approaches. With four healthy children and financial stability their own parents could have only dreamed of, Fred and Fran are the picture of the American Dream-rags to riches-with a family-owned chain of successful discount department stores built on years of hard work and long hours. Underneath the surface, however, the business is changing at a breakneck pace, and each member of the family is struggling to keep up. Money is transforming Fred, and the extremes he will go to in order to fit in with Lexington, Kentucky's slicked-back high society crowd are embarrassing, if not downright dangerous. Oldest son Josiah wants nothing to do with the family business, Sam is seeing things that might not really be there, and Benny and Birdie are growing up with a fraction of the parenting that their older brothers did. Meanwhile, Fran, her family's stable core, is falling for Wendy, a cashier at Baker-Taylor's, risking everything along the way. While trying to maintain the facade of a perfect success story, Fred and Fran learn that in matters of love and money, once it's gone, it's gone-no returns, no exchanges"-- Provided by publisher.
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