Book description
Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia
Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of
fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life, they
marry young and have two children before Cynthia reaches the age of
twenty-five. Adam is a rising star in the world of private equity and
becomes his boss's protege. With a beautiful home in the upper-class
precincts of Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they
are, by any reasonable standard, successful.
But the Moreys' standard is not the same as other people's. The
future in which they have always believed for themselves and their
children - a life of almost boundless privilege, in which any desire
can be acted upon and any ambition made real - is still out there, but
it is not arriving fast enough to suit them. As Cynthia, at home with
the kids day after identical day, begins to drift, Adam is confronted
with a decision that tests how much he is willing to risk to ensure
his family's happiness and to recapture the sense that, for him and
his wife, the only acceptable life is one
of infinite possibility.
The Privileges is an odyssey of a couple touched by fortune,
changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each
other. Lyrical, provocative, and brilliantly imagined, it is a timely
meditation on wealth, family, and what it means to leave the world
richer than you found it.
