Run: A Novel

"Participating, shocking, provocative and shifting…a totally clever e book, an intimate home drama that nonetheless offers with large points touching us all: faith, race, class, politics and, above all else, household." — Washington Publish

From New York Occasions bestselling creator Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of 1 household on one fateful night time in Boston the place secrets and techniques are unlocked and new bonds are shaped.

Since their mom's dying, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving possessive and ambitions father. As the previous mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle desires to see is sons in politics, a dream the boys have by no means shared. However when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that includes a stranger and her little one, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his potential to maintain his children–all his children–safe.

Set over a interval of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a house for retired Catholic Clergymen in downtown Boston. It exhibits us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist solely blocks other than one another, and the way household can embody folks you've by no means even met. As an in her bestselling novel, Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving a number of tales into one shocking and endlessly shifting narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is in the end a novel about secrets and techniques, obligation, duty, and the lengths we’ll go to guard our youngsters.