Fulfillment
  • Published:
    Jun-2025 (Hardcover)
    Jun-17-2025 (Release)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    336
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Set in Paducah, Kentucky, Lee Cole's follow-up to Groundskeeping (“An exacting, beautifully textured debut novel . . . presages a major career” -- The New York Times Book Review) is a powerful, page-turning story of two half brothers navigating the complexities of class and privilege in the American South.

Fulfillment tells the story of two half brothers -- Joel, a successful academic and author, whose marriage is in deep trouble, and his younger sibling Emmett, paralyzed by indecision and working on a factory assembly line -- who find themselves at their family home in Kentucky and upend each other's lives in devasting ways.

Between them is Alice, Emmett's wife, a wry, passionate young woman who is being slowly asphyxiated by domestic tedium, and whose longing collides with Emmett's hunger for connection and desire to escape a sense of burgeoning failure and shame. As the chemistry between them escalates, the family is plunged into a violent crucible, each character brought to a precipice of immutable catastrophe.

Incisive, poignant, gorgeously written, Lee Cole has written a haunting novel about class, privilege, brotherhood, and the American South, a book that asks whether people can change, and at what cost, and what it takes to build a life of fulfillment and meaning.
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    • First Edition
    • Jun-2025
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0593802861
    • ISBN13: 9780593802861
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    • Jun-2025
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 059380287X
    • ISBN13: 9780593802878



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