This Beautiful Life

<em>ThisBeautiful Life</em> is a gripping potent and blisteringly well-written story offamily dilemma and consequence. . . . I read this book with white-knuckledurgency and I finished it in tears. Helen Schulman is an absolutely brilliantnovelist. --Elizabeth Gilbert author of<em> Eat Pray Love</em><br /> <p>Theevents of a single night shatter one family's sense of security and identity inthis provocative and deeply affecting domestic drama from Helen Schulman theacclaimed author of <em>A Day at the Beach </em>and <em>Out of Time</em>. In thetradition of Lionel Shriver Sue Miller and Laura Moriarty Schulman crafts abrilliantly observed portrait of parenting and modern life cunningly exploringour most deeply-held convictions and revealing the enduring strengths thatemerge in the face of crisis.