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Title: The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Janet Peery
Narrator: Juliana Francis Kelly
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-19-17
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:
Janet Peery's first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed for her gorgeous writing and piercing gaze into the hearts of people, Peery now returns with a new, unflinching audiobook, The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs.
On a summer evening in the blue-collar town of Amicus, Kansas, the Campbell family gathers for a birthday dinner for their ailing patriarch, retired judge Abel Campbell, prepared and hosted by their still-hale mother, Hattie. But when Billy, the youngest sibling - with a history of addiction, grand ideas, and misdemeanors - passes out in his devil's food cake, the family takes up the unfinished business of Billy's sobriety.
Billy's wayward adventures have too long consumed their lives, in particular Hattie's, who has enabled his transgressions while trying to save him from Abel's disappointment. As the older children - Doro, Jesse, ClairBell, and Gideon - contend with their own troubles, they compete for the approval of the elderly parents they adore but can't quite forgive.
With knowing humor and sure-handed storytelling, Janet Peery's new audiobook reveals a family at its best and worst, with old wounds and new, its fractures and feuds, and yet its unbreakable bonds.

Members Reviews:
The Nature of Dysfunction in the Heartland: A Family Novel.....
With American opioid drug use reaching astounding levels by 2016, government officials have vowed to provide funding to meet the challenges to fight this epidemic that has claimed so many lives. âThe Exact Nature of Our Wrongsâ (2017) is a dramatic and provocative portrayal of family life and addiction in the American heartland by Janet Peery, an award winning and bestselling short story writer and novelist. Peeryâs debut âAlligator Dance: Storiesâ (1998) remains in print, this is her fourth book.
The Campbellâs lived in Amicus, Kansas. The patriarch of the family, an elderly retired judge/attorney Abel Campbell was a WWII veteran that served in Saipan. With a quick and brilliant mind, he studied science and physics. He was a âmanâs manâ an outdoorsman that enjoyed hunting/fishing. Abel, a perfectionist, had high exact standards for behavior and was profoundly disappointed in his baby boom generation adult children who had brought shame to their once respected family name he had worked diligently to preserve. Often, from the bench and with other connections, his family members had to be excused from legal charges and violations.
Hattie, married for over sixty years to Abel had tried to shield her children from their fatherâs scathing wrath and judgment. As a daughter of pioneers, she was thoughtful and kind serving her community through church and civic duties. With all the scandals involving her adult childrenâs multiple divorces, public intoxication, DUIâs, drug/alcohol related embarrassing public confrontations, firearms violations, foreclosures, and family estrangement when âfamily problemsâ were brought to light-- Hattie was deeply troubled over these issues. In her late 80âs with a heart condition, she prayed that she would outlive her youngest son Billy, who was often unable to pay his rent or buy groceries.
The oldest daughter âDoroâ (Theodora) had relocated to the east coast, and had successfully raised two daughters as a single parent.