A Book of American Martyrs

von Joyce Carol Oates

In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. In her moving, insightful portrait, Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of the two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely-but with great empathy-confronts an intractable, abiding rift in American society.