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019			_a922910449
008			160614s2016 nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780062328243
020			_a0062328247
020			_z9780062560377 (International edition)
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020			_a9780062560377
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050		4	_aPS3569.H742 _bM26 2016
100	1		_aShriver, Lionel,
245	1	4	_aThe Mandibles : _ba family, 2029 - 2047 / _cLionel Shriver.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, _c[2016]
300			_a402 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
500			_a"In god we trusted"--Jacket.
520			_aIt is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America's soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. Under siege from an upstart international currency, the dollar is in meltdown. A bloodless world war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Their inheritance turned to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also -- as the effects of the downturn start to hit -- the challenge of sheer survival. Recently affluent Avery is petulant that she can't buy olive oil, while her sister Florence is forced to absorb strays into her increasingly cramped household. As their father Carter fumes at having to care for his demented stepmother now that a nursing home is too expensive, his sister Nollie, an expat author, returns from abroad at 73 to a country that's unrecognizable. Perhaps only Florence's oddball teenage son Willing, an economics autodidact, can save this formerly august American family from the streets. This is not science fiction. This is a frightening, fascinating, scabrously funny glimpse into the decline that may await the United States all too soon, from the pen of perhaps the most consistently perceptive and topical author of our times.
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction.
650		0	_aInterpersonal relations _vFiction.
650		0	_aInheritance and succession _vFiction.
650		0	_aHumorous stories.
650		7	_aFinancial crises. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00924607.
655		7	_aFiction. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423787.
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