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|title=May We Be Forgiven

|author=A M Homes

|publisher=Granta

|date=April 2013

|website=http://www.amhomesbooks.com/

|summary=A biting and very funny satire of American family life that flies off in unexpected directions. If you can 'forgive' the artistic licence with reality, then this is highly entertaining and unusual.

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''May We Be Forgiven'' is not an easy book to summarise. The book is narrated by Harold, a fairly pedestrian academic teacher and aspiring writer of history and particularly the Nixon era. We don't have to wait long for the catalyst that changes his life fundamentally over the course of a year. His high flying, younger brother, George, is involved in a car accident shortly after Thanksgiving and an adulterous encounter will change the lives of Harold and George forever. AM Homes offers a biting satire of the American Dream, taking swipes at materialism, families that are more nuclear fallout than nuclear, Internet sex sites and the dependence on drugs and psychiatrists to keep people on the straight and narrow.