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A significant, propulsive, darkly funny new book from the best selling writer of Snow Falling on Cedars: a tale of success, wish, and damage that reimagines Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex for the own period.   In Seattle in 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild mannered actuary—“a man who weighs risk to get a living”—takes a risk of their own, and makes the largest mistake of his existence. He rests with Diane Burroughs, the attractive, not-quite-authorized English au-pair who’s looking after his kids for summer time. Diane gets pregnant and leaves their infant on a doorstep, although not before turning the tables on Walt and setting in-motion a catastrophe of epic dimensions.