This brilliantly witty and insightful novel, set in near-future America, follows four generations of a once-prosperous family as they navigate the aftershocks of a devastated U.S. economy brought on by a national debt crisis—one that will seem all too frighteningly realistic“Shriver has always seemed to be at least a few steps ahead of the rest of us, but her new novel establishes her firmly as the Cassandra of American letters…. I don’t remember the last time a novel held me so enduringly in its grip.” —New York Times Book Review