We All Sleep in the Same Room: A Novel
Where do you go when you've done everything right? Tom Claughlin, a 40-something labor lawyer, has spent his life fighting an unwinnable war. A husband, recent father, and longtime advocate for the noble New York City workforce, he plunges himself into every case--a school teacher threatened...
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Where do you go when you've done everything right? Tom Claughlin, a 40-something labor lawyer, has spent his life fighting an unwinnable war. A husband, recent father, and longtime advocate for the noble New York City workforce, he plunges himself into every case--a school teacher threatened with deportation, a former receptionist haunted by abuse--even as they bring him intimately closer with the firm's newest hire: Jessie, a winsome young legal assistant. We All Sleep in the Same Room pans between the victories and flirtations of a Times Square office, and the tiffs and tenderness of a Union Square home. A simmering psychological bender, Paul Rome's debut offers a tale of moral erosion and collapse over the course of four fateful months in the fall of 2005.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780985490294 (0985490292)
Publish date: November 5th 2013
Publisher: Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
I first talked about a pre-publication copy of We All Sleep in the Same Room on the Unpr!ntable podcast. Now it’s on the shelf, I’m going to rave about it some more, this time in print. We've met the protagonist of Rome's book before: the man in the throes of a mid-life crisis. Moody sets him in t...
I kept passing by this one on my kindle making excuses for why I didn't feel like starting it yet. I should have listened to my instincts. This book has resulted in my confusion and also in the new shelf I created just for it called "WTF was that?" I need a mind cleanser now.