The Beads: A Novel of Old Money and the Desperate Search for Love -- David McConnell, Paperback

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The Beads: A Novel of Old Money and the Desperate Search for Love -- David McConnell, Paperback"An entertaining, deeply imagined literary melodrama." Kirkus Reviews (Starred)In David McConnell's The Beads, members of a wealthy New York family begin to unravel after having wasted their incredible fortune over more than a century. The patriarch gets lost in a maze of his own neuroses. The mother luxuriates in a life of idle pleasure. The neglected son, Darius, nurses an obsession with his ultra normal best friend, Barry. As if that weren't

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