WOLF AT THE TABLE

THE CORRECTIONS meets WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst.

Late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York and 13 year old Myra Larkin, the oldest child in a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins family for half a century.

As the siblings leave home and fan across the country, each pursues a shard of the American dream. Myra serves as a prison nurse while raising her son, Ronan. Her middle sisters, Lexy and Fiona, find themselves on opposite sides of class and power. Alec, once an altar boy, is banished from the house and drifts into oblivion. As he becomes an increasingly alienated loner, his mother begins to receive postcards full of ominous portent. What they reveal, and what they require, will shatter a family and lead to devastating reckoning.

Through one family's pursuit of the American dream, WOLF AT THE TABLE explores our consistent proximity to violence and its effects over time. Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp writes with gorgeous acuity, cutting to the heart of each character as he reveals the devastating reality beneath the veneer of good society.

Adam Rapp is an acclaimed filmmaker and playwright. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his play Red Light Winter and is the recipient of the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other honors. Rapp is currently a Tony Award finalist for his play The Sound Inside, starring Mary-Louise Parker. He was the showrunner for the Showtime series adaptation of the Philipp Meyer novel American Rust, and was the lead writer and executive producer of the Hulu adaptation of Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower. He is currently developing a TV series adaptation of the James Salter novel Light Years and is also the author of the forthcoming Broadway musical adaption of the classic novel The Outsiders.

In addition to his numerous plays, he is the author of the novels Know Your Beholder and The Year of Endless Sorrows (FSG; published by Argo in the Czech Republic) and several YA novels, including Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Born in Chicago and raised in nearby Joliet, Illinois, Rapp now splits his time between New York City's East Village and upstate New York.