Sunday, July 17, 2011

Can you name this short fiction novel about a home invasion?

I am hoping someone can tell me the title of a book matching this description: I read this short novel in 2010 and I believe it was a fairly recent release. It revolved around a family in the aftermath of a home invasion; if my memory serves me, the person who broke into their home was a drug addict. The women fled upstairs, I believe the brother possibly to the basement (and he was ashamed of this), and the father tried to ward the invader off but suffered some kind of heart attack, I think. The family consisted of, at minimum, a brother and sister, husband and wife. The plot revealed the nature of the home invasion in bits and pieces, but focused on what they experienced psychologically and as a family after the fact. One prominent sub-plot was the sister's romantic involvement with a college boy, and the story arc creshendoed when she had a panic attack in his car and he left her on the side of a highway. I have scoured sites with key words like "home invasion" and found diddly, so I'm hoping someone else out there read and enjoyed it, and can help me out.

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