Book - BookDetective

Name: State of the Union

Author: Douglas Kennedy
Year: 2005
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
Fiction, Contemporary

Purchase/reserch links:

Amazon

Goodreads

LibraryThing

ISBNs:
9780091800284
0091800285

Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript corner of Maine.

But normality isn't quite what Hannah imagined it would to be, and try as she might to fight it, the urge to rebel against the things that hem her in grows ever stronger. Eventually, a series of encounters puts Hannah in an exhilarating but dangerous position - one in which she never thought she would find herself.

For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life lies buried deep in the past, all but forgotten - until a turn of fate brings it crashing back into the limelight. As her secret emerges, Hannah's life goes into freefall and she is left struggling against the force of the past.