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When nine-year-old Tom Serafinos twin sister Teagan suffers a debilitating brain injury, a police investigation implicates his playmate Marios unclean immigrant, transient worker known as Shoe. Innocent of the crime but burdened by his own childhood tragedy, Shoe takes the blame for what is in fact an accident caused by his young nephew, ensuring Marios chance at a future publicly unscarred.The lines between innocence and guilt, evasions and half-truths, love and duty are blurred. Can a lie born from resignation, fear, and love transform tragedy into hope? And is the life of one man worth the price of that lie?Told in vivid scenes alive with imagery and with thematic echoes of John Burnham Schwartzs Reservation Road and Northwest Corner, Apology explores how the decisions we make in an instant reverberate in the years to come. Apology further paints a portrait of sacrifice within two immigrant families raising first-generation Americans. It explores the measure of duty we have toward one another, and the extent to which abandoning the wreckage of family and the past often leads to unexpected consequences.Deeply empathetic and beautifully written, Apology marks the novelistic debut of a critically acclaimed Asian American writer.
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