Fatherland

"Beautiful, brilliant Lora defies the wishes of her affluent middle-class family when she quits college and elopes with Henry Brier, an upstart medical student, on the eve of his departure for the war in the South Pacific. Twelve years later, Henry and Lora are Dr. and Mrs. Henry Brier, admired and respected in their tight-knit community in Youngstown, Ohio, with three children, a gorgeous, well-appointed house on a tree-lined street, with a Buick in the garage and membership to the local country club, where the husbands play golf and the wives sip tea and martinis, and the kids frolic in the pool. Their lives could not be more idyllic ... except Henry is fed up with fatherhood, he's caught up in another affair, and he and Lora are on the brink of a scandalous divorce. When Henry abruptly abandons the family-resettling in a new house in the same town with a new wife and child-Lora and her children face the devastating question of how to move on from, and without, the husband and father they loved.