Testing of Luther Albright

Luther Albright is a devoted father and a designer of dams, a self-controlled man who believes he can engineer happiness for his family by sheltering them from his own emotions.

But when an earthquake shakes his Sacramento home, the world Luther has constructed with such care begins to tilt: his son's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre and threatening, his loving wife seems to grow distant, the house he built with his own hands shows its first signs of decay, and a dam of his design comes under investigation for structural flaws exposed by the tremors. Nightmarish connections begin to whisper at Luther from the most innocent of places as debut novelist MacKenzie Bezos tightens her net of psychological suspense around the reader with bravura skill. This is a harrowing portrait of an ordinary man who finds himself tested and strives not to be found wanting.

Luther Albright este un tata devotat si un proiectant de baraje, un om autocontrolat care crede ca poate proiecta fericirea pentru familia sa, adapostindu-i de propriile emotii, dar cand un cutremur ii zdruncina casa din Sacramento, lumea pe care Luther a construit-o astfel ingrijirea incepe sa se incline: comportamentul fiului sau devine din ce in ce mai bizar si amenintator, sotia sa iubitoare pare sa se indeparteze, casa pe care a construit-o cu propriile maini prezinta primele semne ale decaderii si un baraj din proiectul sau face obiectul unei investigatii pentru defectele structurale expuse de tremuraturi.