Kelly Braffet (Get this book) Braffet's excruciatingly rendered characters and locomotive plotting make her a writer's writer, though this novel shows all the signs of a popular breakthrough. Patrick, 26, lives with his older brother, Mike, and Mike's girlfriend, Caro, in a shabby house creaking with the ghost of their father, who a year ago killed a child in a drunk-driving accident and made social pariahs of his sons. Perceptive, nervy, and with broad cross-genre appeal.--Booklist
