num_pages: 404
description: What if someone you trusted was accused of the unthinkable?George Woodbury an affable teacher and beloved husband and father is arrested for sexual impropriety at a prestigious prep school. His wife Joan vaults between denial and rage as the community she loved turns on her. Their daughter Sadie a popular over-achieving high school senior becomes a social pariah. Their son Andrew assists in his fathers defense while wrestling with his own unhappy memories of his teen years. A local author tries to exploit their story while an unlikely mens rights activist attempts to get Sadie onside their cause. With George locked up how do the members of his family pick up the pieces and keep living their lives? How do they defend someone they love while wrestling with the possibility of his guilt?With exquisite emotional precision award-winning author Zoe Whittall explores issues of loyalty truth and the meaning of happiness through the lens of an all-American family on the brink of collapse.
language: English
title: The Best Kind of People
publisher: House of Anansi Pr