The boys of Burdes

Jim and Bob Burgesy had long left the native town in Maine. The death of their father was tragic, and not one of the brothers still survived her, both live with an injury in the soul. The first is a successful lawyer, a pragmatic and cynical, the second is an unlucky lawyer, a good -natured, with an unheard of personal life. Years later, the brothers were forced to return to the parental house to deal with the story, which another Burzes fell into - their nephew. And all that, as it seemed to them, they managed to forget, leave in the past, falls on with renewed vigor.
In this novel, as in the cult Olivia Kitteridge, Elizabeth Starout penetrates into the very essence of the nature of the family with its joys and suffering, resentment and sacrifice, secrets and exposures