Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences.

Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead.

The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts.
When the daughters of the two families, Naomi Voorhees and Dawn Dunphy, glimpse each other at the trial of Luther Dunphy, their initial response is mutual hatred. But their lives are tangled together forever by what has happened, and throughout the years to come and the events that follow, neither can quite forget the other...

'The story of Trump's America' Daily Mail

'The most relevant book of Oates's half-century-long career... a masterpiece' Washington Post

'Oates's American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country. A graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different realities' USA Today

• We started tracking this book on October 25, 2016.
• This book was £10.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 79 times in the past 2,739 days.
• The current price of this book is £3.49 last checked one hour ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past year.
• The lowest price to date was £0.99 last reached on December 20, 2018.
• This book has been £0.99 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £10.99 last reached on October 25, 2016.
• This book has been £10.99 one time since we started tracking it.

• Literature & FictionLiterary Fiction
• Literature & FictionGenre FictionMedical
• Literature & FictionClassicsClassics

• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 694 Pages
• File Size: 1,373 KB