Algonquin Press
March 24, 2015
I have three children and just cannot read this story. It is too much a fear. But I sense it's a very powerful story that should be read.....if not by me, then by others.
You might want to check it out.
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Brian and Jeff were best friends when they were young, leading lives
of promise in New York City in the late 1960s, until something happened
that brought an end to both their childhood and their friendship. Forty
years later, when their secret surfaces in a terrible new context, they
are forced to reunite by Jeff’s cousin, Julie, who was also a victim of
their childhood trauma. Together they must decide whether to tell all —
unbalancing their lives and threatening their future — or continue to
hide the truth and allow others to be victimized.Rafael Yglesias,
critically acclaimed bestselling novelist and screenwriter, has crafted a
novel that tells the stories of these three childhood friends who join
together as adults to acknowledge the ways in which their lives were
altered by the actions of a predator who sexually abused them, and who
now, many years later, has been exposed by more recent victims but,
thanks to his wealth and influence, is on the verge of escaping
punishment.
The Wisdom of Perversity unmasks the headlines, giving voice
to what has been left unsaid and light to what has been hidden. Yglesias
has created a startling, engrossing, unsettling, and moving story of
surviving an insidious evil and of a triumphant struggle to heal its
wounds.
