The Hole We're in - Paperback

by Gabrielle Zevin (Author)

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a bold, timeless novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America.

"Equal parts sharply funny and sobering, Zevin's portrait of a family in financial free fall captures the zeitgeist."--People

Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, while his wife, Georgia, has been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children--especially for Patsy, the youngest, who will spend most of her life fighting to overcome them. The Hole We're In shines a spotlight on over-reliance on credit, gender and class politics, and the war in Iraq, but it is Zevin's deft exploration of the fragile economy of family life that makes this a book for the ages.

Author Biography

Gabrielle Zevin is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and Young Jane Young. Her most recent novel is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, one of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, a selection of the Tonight Show's Fallon Book Blub, the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and one of the best books of the year according to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Atlantic, Oprah Daily, Slate, NPR, and many others. She has also written books for young readers, including Elsewhere, which Time magazine named one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time. Her novels have been translated into forty languages. She lives in Los Angeles.