All the houses
By: Karen Olsson
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780374281328
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Mental Depression; Fiction; Families; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990
Description: After her father has a heart attack and subsequent surgery, Helen Atherton returns to her hometown of Washington, D.C., to help take care of him and, perhaps more honestly, herself. She's been living in Los Angeles, trying to work in Hollywood, slowly spiraling into a depression fueled by hours spent watching C-SPAN-her obsession with politics a holdover from a childhood interrupted by her father's involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. "I don't know whether to think of him as a coconspirator or a complicit bystander or just someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time." Though the rest of the world has forgotten that scandal, the Atherton family never quite recovered. While living with her father in her childhood home, Helen tries to piece together the political moves that pulled her family apart.