02189cam a2200349 i 4500 300601330 TxAuBib 20170809120000.0 170407s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781524731908 1524731900 (OCoLC)964295294 TxAuBib rda Culliton, Emily. The misfortune of Marion Palm : a novel / by Emily Culliton. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. xiii, 281 p. ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Bklst 07/01/2017. PW 05/15/2017. A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. But, now, when the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house. Told from the points of view of Nathan, Marion's husband, heir to a long-diminished family fortune; Ginny, Marion's teenage daughter who falls helplessly in love at the slightest provocation; Jane, Marion's youngest who is obsessed with a missing person of her own; and Marion herself, on the lam--and hiding in plain sight. 20170809. Embezzlement Fiction. Family life Fiction. Female offenders Fiction. Humorous fiction. Humorous stories. TXDRI