The Breakstone family is set up around her daughter Heather, and the world seems to follow her: beautiful, compassionate, enterprising, the greatest blessing of her luxury life in Manhattan. But as Heather grows - and her sympathy increases somewhat, her brilliance attracts more dark attention - her ideal existence begins to break.

Meanwhile, a very different life begins, one that has arisen in poverty and violence, in its pernicious orbit around Heather. Matthew Weiner - the creator of Mad Men - formulated an unusual first novel to draw and threaten incredible. Heather, the college, stands out for its legitimacy on the human qualities that unite modern society and differentiate it..