num_pages: 291
description: The story: Patsy MacLemoore a history professor in her late twenties with a brand-new Ph.D. from Berkeley and a wild streak wakes up in jail yet again--after another epic alcoholic blackout. Okay what'd I do?? she asks her lawyer and jailers. I really don't remember.? She adds jokingly: Did I kill someone?In fact two Jehovah's Witnesses a mother and daughter are dead run over in Patsy's driveway. Patsy who was driving with a revoked license will spend the rest of her life--in prison getting sober finding a new community (and a husband) in AA--trying to atone for this unpardonable act.Then decades later another unimaginable piece of information turns up.For the reader it is an electrifying moment a joyous fall-off-the-couch-with-surprise moment. For Patsy it is more complicated. Blame must be reapportioned her life reassessed. What does it mean that her life has been based on wrong assumptions? What can she cleave to? What must be relinquished?FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZECHICAGO TRIBUNE FAVORITE FICTION OF THE YEARO THE OPRAH MAGAZINE TEN TERRIFIC READS OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA KANSAS CITY STAR 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
language: English
title: Blame
publisher: Picador