Everything Must Go (MIRA S.)

by ELIZABETHFLOCK (Author)

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  Mass Market Paperback
  2007

  $3.25

  This is a story of longing, missed opportunities and the unravelling of the quintessential American family. Henry Powell still lives and works in the same non-descript north-eastern town where he was born and raised. Compared to some, his life has been lucky, if inauspicious: a glorious senior year of high school, a football scholarship, an undemanding job that pays the bills, a roof over his head, friends to share a beer with on the weekend. Yet Henry is impossibly stuck, unable to reconcile the dreams of his youth with the reality of the unassuming, man he's become. Called home from college by family tragedy, Henry's life is on pause. It is Baxter's, the men's clothing store where he works, which provides Henry's only window to the world passing him by, where he marks time by the milestones in his classmates' lives, where his daydreams reveal the Henry that might have been. Humorous, achingly sad yet perpetually hopeful, Everything Must Go is a powerful exploration of a life that has yet to be lived.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.25

  Can one terrible moment change your life forever?To those on the outside, the Powells are a happy family, but then a devastating accident destroys their fragile facade. When seven-year-old Henry is blamed for the tragedy, he tries desperately to make his parents happy again.As Henry grows up, he is full of potential - a talented sportsman with an academic mind and a thirst for adventure - but soon he questions if the guilt his parents have burdened him with has left him unable to escape his anguished family, or their painful past...With a delicate touch and masterful attention to detail, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Flock invites us to meet a man both ordinary and extraordinary, and to experience a life that has yet to be lived.