The misfortune of Marion Palm

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Label

The misfortune of Marion Palm

Statement of responsibility

Emily Culliton

Creator

• Culliton, Emily

Author

• Culliton, Emily

Subject

• FICTION -- Contemporary Women
• FICTION -- Family Life
• FICTION -- Humorous
• Families
• Families -- Fiction
• Female offenders
• Female offenders -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Fiction
• Embezzlement
• Humorous fiction
• Large print books
• Large type books
• Large type books
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Private schools -- Fiction
• Humorous fiction
• Embezzlement -- Fiction

Genre

• Humorous fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. But, now, when the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house. Told from the points of view of Nathan, Marion's husband, heir to a long-diminished family fortune; Ginny, Marion's teenage daughter who falls helplessly in love at the slightest provocation; Jane, Marion's youngest who is obsessed with a missing person of her own; and Marion herself, on the lam--and hiding in plain sight
• Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. When the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction