The misfortune of Marion Palm / Emily Culliton, 283 pgs.
Marion Palm lives a pretty good life with her husband Nathan and their two daughters. What isn't known to anyone but her is that she is financing this life by embezzling from the school where she works. This also happens to be the school that her children attend. When word comes down of an audit, Marion goes on the lam. She leaves her husband and kids but doesn't go far...she ends up renting a room from a Russian woman who employs her to clean apartments. Pretty soon, she is stealing again. Meanwhile, life at her old home is kind of falling apart. How are things going to turn out for this odd family? An interesting debut novel.
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