num_pages: 416
description: The year is 2029 and nothing is as it should be. The very essence of American life the dollar is under attack. In a coordinated move by the rest of the worlds governments the dollar loses all its value. The American President declares that the States will default on all its loansprices skyrocket currency becomes essentially worthless and we watch one family struggle to survive through it all.The Mandibles can count on their inheritance no longer and each member must come to terms with this in their own wayfrom the elegant expat author Nollie in her middle age returning to the U.S. from Paris after many years abroad to her precocious teenage nephew Willing who is the only one to actually understand the crisis to the brilliant Georgetown economics professor Lowell who watches his whole vision of the world disintegrate before his eyes.As ever in her new novel Shriver draws larger than life characters who illuminate this complicated ever-changing world. One of our sharpest observers of human nature Shriver challenges us to think long and hard about the society we live in and what ultimately we hold most dear.
language: English
title: The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
publisher: Harper