Olivia McLeland and her brother Orson are fairly certain they've left their horrible childhoods behind. As the unacknowledged grandchildren of Robert Vahan, the richest Armenian family in Fresno, California, they have carved Bohemian adult lives for themselves in Boston, far from their traumatized mother and the ghosts of the fathers they never knew. When their spoiled rich kid cousin JR-2 arrives one evening to announce the death of their grandfather and the promise of a piece of his enormous estate, Olivia and Orson return to Fresno to get the money they hope will be retribution for the suffering of their mother at the hands of her evil stepmother, Dahlia, as well as get a little taste of the life that Dahlia has made sure that Olivia's side of the family would never have. When they arrive, Olivia meets Zaven Melkonian, a local businessman and associate of JR-2s, whose fraternal organization, The Brothers of Sassoun, has a stake in Vahan's estate, too. When the full scope of Dahlia's evil is revealed, Olivia and Orson must decide whether or not to hurt the person who has hurt them the most, especially in a family where kindness has never been rewarded.
WOULD YOU READ THIS BOOK?!?!?!?
Whack the 'and she finally gets her comeuppance' part - tease the audience so we don't know whether the twat gets hers in the end.
OT: I wonder if Fresno has a "pigeon bouquet" delivery service...
Posted by: Bob at August 15, 2007 01:38 AM