The Unfolding
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Publisher Description
The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence closer to home and must take responsibility for his past actions. Closely guarded family secrets begin to surface when his wife Charlotte stops self-medicating to numb her emotions. And when eighteen-year-old Megan votes for the first time, she awakens to the dissonance between her father's expectations and her own dreams for the future.
Dark, funny and prescient, The Unfolding explores the implosion of the dream and how we arrived in today's divided world.
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Homes follows Days of Awe with a satiric misfire about a wealthy Republican donor and his family in the wake of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. At the center is a 60-something money man called the "Big Guy" who forms a small clandestine organization with like-minded Republican men to erode American trust in Democratic Party agendas. Meanwhile, the Big Guy's alcoholic wife, Charlotte, attempts suicide, is shipped off to the Betty Ford Center, and grows close to another resident, Terrie. The Big Guy's 18-year-old daughter, Meghan, begins to question her sheltered upbringing after she learns some family secrets. Throughout, Homes injects her signature wit (on the choice of Sarah Palin for John McCain's running mate, the Big Guy says, "If you want to appeal to women voters, don't pick an idiot"), but most of the supporting cast are caricatures, and far too often, when meeting with the Big Guy to plot their retribution, they ramble on interminably. Homes loses the balance provided by the three family members, and though she makes a stab at tying up loose ends in the final pages, it's too little, too late. While the novel sparks when exploring the political underground, it never fully ignites.
