Heather, the Totality

Mark and Karen Breakstones are an almost perfect family. He is a successful financier. She is an intellectual woman who gave up her career for their daughter. They have a solid bank account and a luxurious New York apartment. They deny themselves nothing. And they adore their only daughter, Heather, whom not only they but everyone around considers perfection: a beautiful, smart, kind girl. But suddenly a frightening shadow appears on the idyllic horizon. What could possibly be in common between an angel from Manhattan and a criminal from New Jersey? How could they even have met?

This book is an exciting story with an unpredictable ending and, at the same time, a harsh mockery of stereotypes of mass consciousness: the cult of success, vulgar sociology, and homegrown psychoanalysis.