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The Suitor
It’s been a tough year for Anna. She barely escaped a murderous shooting and faced relentless academic pressure to be accepted at a prestigious law school. Following college graduation, she heads to her family’s lake house for a stress-free summer and takes a job at a resort restaurant. Her adventure goes awry when she is seduced by the party life and falls for the ambitious Kyle, who loves her but also sees in Anna a path to his own success. Anna’s father, Art, believes his vulnerable daughter is falling into a trap, and will do anything to prevent their marriage.
356 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 18, 2024
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David Klein
6 books37 followersI am the author of the novels STASH and CLEAN BREAK, published by Broadway Books, the novels IN FLIGHT and THE SUITOR, and the exclusive eBook THE CULLING.
I like to write, and read, stories about people who find themselves, often due to their own character flaws, in extraordinary and difficult circumstances that test their moral courage.
Visit my web site: http://www.bydavidklein.com.
I like to write, and read, stories about people who find themselves, often due to their own character flaws, in extraordinary and difficult circumstances that test their moral courage.
Visit my web site: http://www.bydavidklein.com.
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July 26, 2024What are the limits to a parent’s responsibility for their child’s life? When must they relinquish control? What are the consequences if they intervene and were wrong about is best for their child; what are the consequences if they were right? How does a child’s transition into adulthood alter the family, especially when that transition is marked by trauma?
In The Suitor, Klein explores these questions of parental duty, taking them to their extremes and, in doing so, lays out their intricacies for his readers to examine. What begins as a careful documentation of infatuation and addiction with the lovely pacing of a lakeside summer day then sweeps into a tense thriller, building and breaking like a July storm. Klein allows his characters the space for compelling ambiguity, internal contradictions, and delightfully unlikable traits that breathe life into them as they fall into mistakes precipitated by all-too familiar flaws.
A thoroughly enjoyable book. My one complaint is the frequent use of “party” as a synonym for drug use, but perhaps that simply reveals my own embarrassing distance from the vernacular of #coolkids.
In The Suitor, Klein explores these questions of parental duty, taking them to their extremes and, in doing so, lays out their intricacies for his readers to examine. What begins as a careful documentation of infatuation and addiction with the lovely pacing of a lakeside summer day then sweeps into a tense thriller, building and breaking like a July storm. Klein allows his characters the space for compelling ambiguity, internal contradictions, and delightfully unlikable traits that breathe life into them as they fall into mistakes precipitated by all-too familiar flaws.
A thoroughly enjoyable book. My one complaint is the frequent use of “party” as a synonym for drug use, but perhaps that simply reveals my own embarrassing distance from the vernacular of #coolkids.
July 9, 2024
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