New York: Scribner, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of the 7th novel by this award-winning author, one where the manuscript was literally hidden in the refrigerator for 30 years. "A brilliant, noirish cultural commentary on upheaval in American marriage and politics, circa 1970. . . Over a four-day weekend, the author brings a half-dozen Southern California families to the boiling point, portraying the trouble she sees brewing in suburbia. And trouble - much of it deadly - is oozing out everywhere, from the cracks and chasms that have appeared between husbands and wives, parents and children, humans and planet, (as wildfires ravage the hills of Malibu). Wolff weaves the era's social upheaval into each foreboding page, but it's her devastating insight into what people say and do when they're disappointed with each other that makes this book a page-turner." (PW) 429 pp. ISBN: 0-743254821.