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Freebird

by Jon Raymond
Stephen R. Thorne
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The Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city's wastewater. Her brother, Ben, a former Navy SEAL, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence. And Anne's teenage son, Aaron, can't decide if he should go to college or pitch it all and hit the road. They all live inside the long shadow of the Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam, whose untold experience of the Holocaust shapes his family's moral character to the core. Jon Raymond, screenwriter of the acclaimed films Meek's Cutoff and Night Moves, combines these narrative threads into a hard-driving story of one family's moral crisis. In Freebird, Raymond delivers a brilliant, searching novel about death and politics in America today, revealing how the fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history.

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  • Release date

    January 10, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781681682914
      • File size: 316183 KB
      • Duration: 10:58:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 17, 2016
      Raymond (Rain Dragon) offers an original, provocative, and intriguing story about a California family facing individual personal crises. Anne Singer is a Los Angeles municipal bureaucrat—lazy, bored, and unhappy. Her son, Aaron, is a 17-year-old pot-smoking slacker paid to take care of his grumpy Grandpa Sam, a Holocaust survivor. Anne’s brother, Ben, is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL, a combat veteran now questioning the value and morality of his military service. Anne gets involved with a slick, pretentious pitchman’s proposal to buy all of L.A. County’s wastewater, “to become the world’s first used-water salesman.” The scheme is short on substance, and Anne knows it, but she is fascinated by the scam and wants in. Meanwhile, Aaron and Grandpa Sam go on a road trip to Oakland to retrieve a stash of Grandpa’s wartime gold, and Ben, discouraged and disillusioned by American greed and corruption, hatches a plan to kill his old boss. This is a powerful and tender family drama. Agent: Bill Clegg, the Clegg Agency.

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