A thoughtful and spellbinding examination of grief, class, race and inequality that penetrates the darker psychological underbelly of contemporary American life' mail on sunday. John Earle 'Whitey' McClaren, the strong-willed, popular, former mayor of a prosperous American city, is killed attempting to intervene in the vicious assault of a young man by two police officers. In the wake of this tragedy, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow Jessalyn in the most surprising way of all.
A thoughtful and spellbinding examination of grief, class, race and inequality that penetrates the darker psychological underbelly of contemporary American life' mail on sunday. John Earle 'Whitey' McClaren, the strong-willed, popular, former mayor of a prosperous American city, is killed attempting to intervene in the vicious assault of a young man by two police officers. In the wake of this tragedy, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow Jessalyn in the most surprising way of all.
