Fractures
Subtitle: a novel
By: Lamar Herrin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781250032768
Subjects: Fiction; Families; Inheritance and succession; Hydraulic fracturing; Upper class
Description: The Joyner family sits atop prime Marcellus Shale. When landmen for the natural gas companies begin to lease property all around the family's hundred acres, the Joyners start to take notice. Undecided on whether or not to lease the family land, Frank Joyner must weigh his heirs' competing motivations. All of this culminates as a looming history of family tragedy resurfaces. A sprawling family novel, Fractures follows each Joyner as the controversial hydrofracking issue slowly exacerbates underlying passions and demons. With echoes of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, Fractures takes its reader deep into the beating heart and hearth of a family divided.