Title: Split estate /
Authors: Bacon, Charlotte, 1965-
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Loss (Psychology) Fiction; Bereavement Fiction
Abstract: Shortly after his wife, the mother of his two teenage children, ends her life by jumping from the window of their Manhattan apartment, Arthur King decides he must return with his family to his home state of Wyoming. There, his mother welcomes her wounded son and her dereft grandchildren to her much loved, but now quite diminshed, ranch. But how long will they stay?