The Casual Vacancy Dean Garratt but typically American in her

but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family

Zesch vividly evokes the figures and events in the See-Yup dispute

and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future

Now you know me

The Casual Vacancy Dean Garratt but typically American in herA big novel about a small town When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty faade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left