Part of the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching
his taller smarter and more successful younger brother George acquire a covetable wife two
kids and a beautiful home in New York City. But Harry also knows his brother has a murderous
temper. When George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both
brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both must seek absolution. Suddenly
Harry finds himself playing parent to his brother?s two adolescent children tumbling down a
rabbit hole of online sex and dealing with aging parents who move through life like travellers
on a fantastic voyage. And he is forced to confront the ways in which our histories can either
compel us to repeat our mistakes or become the catalyst for change. May We Be Forgiven is a
darkly funny tale exploring how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back
together.
