Split Estate

A wonderfully tough-minded novel from a master dramatist of the poignant, interwoven crises of modern life. SPLIT ESTATE opens with devastating scenes of a family at a horrific juncture: the wife of Arthur King and mother of his two teenage children, Celia and Cam, has recently committed suicide, jumping out the window of their New York apartment.Charlotte Bacon’s luminous new novel tracks the King family as it struggles to survive in the months that follow. Arthur, an attractive lawyer who h…