The Doctor's House: A Novel

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An impeccable ear for language, an eye for the smallest shifts in the cultural landscape, and a preternatural understanding of motivation and behaviorAnn Beattie's renowned storytelling abilities are on dazzling display in The Doctors House.

The novel opens to Ninas account of her brothers sexual appetites and betrayals, and leads into her mothers narrative. As new shadows and light are cast on Ninas story, painful secrets of life in her fathers housethe doctors houseemerge. In the dramatic third movement, the brother gives us his perspective. Through subtle shifts, The Doctors House chronicles the fictions three people fabricate in order to survive their lives and showcases the keen observances of family and culture that have made Beattie one of our most admired voices.