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A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

a novel

by Ken Kalfus

237 pages · 2006

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One year into an impossibly bitter divorce, Marshall and Joyce Harriman, a Brooklyn Heights couple, are at war. On the morning of September 11 each thinks the other is dead, and each is secretly happy. Far from putting things into perspective, the tragedy and aftermath become a counterpoint to the ongoing war to divide Joyce and Marshall's assets as the Harrimans enact the country's problems on their pathetically personal scale. --

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