![]() ![]() Then Cal Rusch, Lena’s extremely wealthy but estranged uncle, offers his backing. Unfortunately start-up money has dried up. ![]() ![]() Lena is exhausted, and she can’t count on much help from Charlie, who is jetting around the country desperately promoting the robotic surgery technique he has developed that could change medicine. One died immediately, and the survivor, Willa, has been in and out of the hospital ever since, her physical and developmental future still uncertain. Eleven months ago Lena gave birth to twin girls. These almost saintly protagonists have been disgustingly happy together, but by the time the novel opens, shortly after the inauguration, life has already started to fall apart. High-octane melodrama from Edgarian ( Rise the Euphrates, 1994) about a married couple whose brilliance, beauty and nobility are no safeguard against personal and societal woes during the first year of the Obama presidency.įormer PBS producer Lena Rusch has moved back to her hometown of San Francisco with her husband Charlie Pepper, a working-class Boston boy turned Harvard-trained surgeon/idealistic entrepreneur, and their precocious preschool son Theo. ![]()
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