How to Earn Your Keep - Softcover

Berrini, Deahn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0985168935 ISBN 13: 9780985168933

Publisher: Four Square Press, 2012

Synopsis

In this fast-paced, character- driven novel, Kit Lavoie has lost her college scholarship, and is back at her seaside home north of Boston. Responsible for her childlike mother and her brother, Larry, she takes a job with a personal injury lawyer. Kit willingly goes along when her boss enlists her to help snare a wealthy defendant who could make the firm millions-until the facts of the case pit Kit's conscience against her need to make a living. As Larry, sexually unsure and impulsive, learns to trust himself, he gives his sister the courage to act. Set on the windy ocean marshes north of Boston, How to Earn Your Keep takes a hard look at how economic stress can unravel one's morality. And how, sometimes, one illuminating moment can bring us back to our senses.

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About the Author

Deahn Berrini aims to give voice to those not backed by education, connections or luck. Her first novel, Milkweed, which looks at post-traumatic stress disorder in returning vets from the family’s point of view, was praised by Richard Currey, author of the classic Fatal Light, and recommended by the Vietnam Veterans of America’s The VWA Veteran. She writes for her local newspaper and teaches writing. A graduate of Brown University with a degree in History and an alum of Boston College Law School, she lives north of Boston with her family and is at always at work on her next novel. Contact her at: deahn.berrini@gmail.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Four Square Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985168935
• ISBN 13: 9780985168933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292