![]() An intervention/rehab expert (“found online”) arrives, but also announces that there is little chance of success. Julia’s father, a retired brain surgeon besieged by raging emotions, declares that rehab programs have terrible success rates for heroin addicts. Cost, a knowing portrait of a family in crisis, is notable for its refusal to offer easy answers. These moments of awareness, the reader knows, must be interrupted - and soon Julia’s older son Steven arrives at the summer house bearing the news that younger son Jack is a heroin addict. Her daughter Julia roams the kitchen of her Maine beach house, “her movements hurried, slightly inept”, and when she opens a jar of mayonnaise she feels the glass threads give way beneath her hands. ![]() ![]() Katherine, an elegant elderly woman visiting her adult daughter, caresses her combs and frets that she is losing her memory. ![]() Cost, Roxana Robinson’s tense novel about a disintegrating American family, begins in a mood of heightened sensitivity. ![]()
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