Resumen
There was a new beginning. He felt it everywhere, in the sweep of change, in the simple pronouncement of Yes we can!" Its 2008 and Norman Price - a moderately successful forty-something playwright living in Chicago - considers the shuddering impact of the financial crash. Whats needed, he thinks, is the will for a new existence. When his parents die, one shortly after the other, The New Existence becomes Normans mantra as he tries to recalibrate his own shaken world. Into Normans tentative re-building, a couple of bombshells are dropped. His parents old house has to go on the market, forcing him to revisit the past. And then he receives a mysterious email from a man he has never met but whose name is instantly, painfully, familiar. Normans new existence is suddenly threatened by past secrets. Michael Collins takes post 9/11 America as the background for a deeply moving novel about complex identities and the fragility of humanity.
