Nearly Normal Family

"...A compulsively readable tour de force." --The Wall Street Journal

New York Times Book Review recommends M.T. Edvardsson's A Nearly Normal Family and lauds it as a "page-turner" that forces the reader to confront "the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe our beloveds expect." (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading Issue)

When the teenage daughter of responsible, upstanding parents is accused of murder, a family realizes that it isn't love that will keep them together: it's lies.

Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from a respectable local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him?

Told in an unusual three-part structure, this gripping, domestic drama pushes a family to its limits. The father, a pastor, believes his daughter can only be innocent, despite mounting evidence. The mother, a defense attorney, believes no one is telling the truth. And the daughter, desperate for her dreams of the future, believes no one understands how far she is willing to go.

In this complex, multi-layered novel, every character's loyalty and morality is tested. Are we duty-bound to defend our family, even with the evidence against them? Is anyone who they seem on the surface? And what are we willing to compromise to keep our lives, as we know them, intact?

„... Un tur de forta lizibil in mod compulsiv.” - The Wall Street Journal New York Times Book Review recomanda O familie aproape normala a lui MT Edvardsson si o lauda ca pe o „pagina de intoarcere” care obliga cititorul sa se confrunte cu „compromisurile pe care le facem cu noi insine pentru a fi oamenii pe care credem ca-i asteapta iubitii . " (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading Issue) Cand fiica adolescenta a parintilor responsabili si instabili este acuzata de crima, o familie isi da seama ca nu dragostea ii va tine impreuna: sunt minciuni. Stella Sandell, in varsta de 18 ani, este acuzata de uciderea brutala a unui barbat de aproape cincisprezece ani in varsta de ea.