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The Good Parents.(The Good Parents: A Novel )(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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A girl from the Australian outback heads to Melbourne and, in thrall to the idea of having a secret, grownup life, runs off with her older, married boss, a shady businessman who, she recognizes, has little genuine feeling for her. This is just an overture to the novel's central story, in which the girl's parents, in the wake of their daughter's disappearance, confront their own youthful rebellions--the mother's early romance with a ...

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