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Blame / by Michelle Huneven.

by Huneven, Michelle, 1953-

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Sarah Crichton Books, c2009.

Drunk driving -- Fiction.

Women college teachers -- Fiction.

Women alcoholics -- Fiction.

Women prisoners -- Fiction.

Pedestrian accidents -- Fiction.

California -- Fiction.

Online reading group guide

9780312429850 (2010 Picador trade pbk.)

9780374114305 (alk. paper)

291 p. ; 24 cm.

"Patsy MacLemoore, a history professor in her late twenties with a brand-new Ph.D. from Berkeley and a wild streak, wakes up in jail—yet again—after another epic alcoholic blackout. “Okay, what’d I do?” she asks her lawyer and jailers. “I really don’t remember.” She adds, jokingly: “Did I kill someone?” In fact, two Jehovah’s Witnesses, a mother and daughter, are dead, run over in Patsy’s driveway. Patsy, who was driving with a revoked license, will spend the rest of her life—in prison, getting sober, finding a new community (and a husband) in AA—trying to atone for this unpardonable act. Then, decades later, another unimaginable piece of information turns up. For the reader, it is an electrifying moment, a joyous, fall-off-the-couch-with-surprise moment. For Patsy, it is more complicated. Blame must be reapportioned, her life reassessed. What does it mean that her life has been based on wrong assumptions? What can she cleave to? What must be relinquished?"--Inside jacket.

Psychological fiction.

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