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From postpunk Brighton to innovative Angola, an incredible coming-of-age report that exercises across nations and generations, reminding us exactly what it means to get back. It's 1988 at the University of Sussex, where kids sport Mohawks and light up to the otherworldly may seem of the Cocteau Twins, as dialog drifts from structuralism to Thatcher to the bloody Labour students. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, David Heller has considered a job as a live-in aide to current quadriplegic and past playboy Hans Bromwell - in part to increase his stay studying abroad, but, in reality, he's looking to get away his own family, still paralyzed by the fatality of his more youthful sister 10 years on. When David moves into the Bromwell house, his life becomes quickly entwined with those of Hans; his alcoholic sister, Elizabeth; and her beautiful, fatherless girl as they find their way their new assignments as dropped aristocracy. As David befriends the Bromwells, the details behind the family's staggering land from elegance are slowly exposed: how Elizabeth's love affair with a Portuguese physician transported the young English girl right into the bloody battlefields of colonial Africa, where an entire continent bellowed for freedom, and a single event left a family group broken forever. A sweeping debut by a practiced political reporter, written in prose as lush and evocative as it is deeply funny, No. 4 Imperial Street artfully shifts through time, from the high politics of embassy backrooms and the bloody occasions of a earth conflict to the budding romance within pot-filled dorm rooms and the ones unforgettable moments when childhood provides way to becoming a grown-up. Reminiscent of Nick Hornby and Alan Hollinghurst, here is a booklet about the intersection of destroyed lives, a booklet that asks whether it is possible for an unexpected stranger to part a family back again together again.
