When the boy was four, he asked his father why people needed sleep. His father said, So God could unfuck all the things people fuck up. _LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020__SHORTLISTED FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2020_As America recovers from the Second World War, two families journeys begin. James Vincent, born in 1942 to an Irish-American family, escapes his parents turbulent marriage and attends law school in New York, where he moves up the social ladder as a prosperous ...