The Three Fates

A sharp, psychologically incisive novel about the war between a father's dreams and a son's destiny. Jonah Wood, ruined by his own business ventures, cannot understand why his son George refuses to pursue money, prestige, or respectable profession. George, haunted by his father's spectacular failure, turns instead to literature and criticism, chasing something his practical parent cannot comprehend or value. When George encounters Constance and Grace Fearing, two orphaned sisters navigating their own uncertain futures, the collision between aspiration and expectation reaches its breaking point. Crawford writes with dry wit and genuine pathos about the peculiar cruelty of loving someone while fundamentally misunderstanding them. The Three Fates examines how we inherit our parents' wounds, whether we can escape the futures others have designed for us, and whether the choices we make in defiance still lead us somewhere worth going. It is a book for anyone who has ever been the disappointment in someone else's story.