01817cam a2200313 i 4500 188691724 TxAuBib 20141128120000.0 140719s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780778316763 0778316769 TxAuBib rda DeBoard, Paula Treick,. The fragile world / Paula Treick DeBoard. Don Mills, Ontario, Canada : MIRA, [2014] 415 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes a reader's guide. The Kaufmans have always considered themselves a normal, happy family. Curtis is a physics teacher at a local high school. His wife, Kathleen, restores furniture for upscale boutiques. Daniel is away at college on a prestigious music scholarship, and twelve-year-old Olivia is a happy-go-lucky kid whose biggest concern is passing her next math test. And then comes the middle-of-the-night phone call that changes everything. Daniel has been killed in what the police are calling a "freak" road accident, and the remaining Kaufmans are left to flounder in their grief. The anguish of Daniel's death is isolating, and it's not long before this once-perfect family finds itself falling apart. As time passes and the wound refuses to heal, Curtis becomes obsessed with the idea of revenge, a growing mania that leads him to pack up his life and his anxious teenage daughter and set out on a collision course to right a wrong. 20141128. Sons Death Fiction. Grief Fiction. Revenge Fiction. Families Fiction. Domestic fiction. Suspense fiction.