Book description
After a gang of neighborhood boys attacks Steven and his sister,
Jenny, the Parkers are doing very well on the resulting settlement
money. The family's dream of success in their new home of Salt Lake
City seems fulfilled. But their period of high living soon ends, and
each family member grasps at what he or she wants most.
Fourteen-year-old Jenny longs for normalcy, a state she tries to
find in her Mormon friends' religion. Steven's father clings to his
desire for affluence, even as his more practical wife tires of his
dreams. For Steven, nothing is more important than keeping his
teetering family together.
More Than Enough is a breathtaking dissection of human
behavior and the American Dream. In it the break-up of a very ordinary
family becomes utterly heart breaking. A novel that is as powerful in
its dismantling of unremarkable lives as Andre Dubus III's House of
Sand and Fog.
John Fulton lives in Boston, where he teaches literature and creative
writing at the University of Massachusetts. He is also the author of the
critically acclaimed story collection,
Retribution
.
