In the Land of the Living: A Novel

A dazzling story of fathers, sons, and brothers - bound by love, divided by history.

The Auberons are a lovably neurotic, infernally intelligent family who love and hate each other-and themselves -- in equal measure.

Driven both by grief at his young mother's death and war with his distant, abusive immigrant father, patriarch Isidore almost attains the life of his dreams: he works his way through Harvard and then medical school; he marries a beautiful and even-keeled girl; in his father-i...