01874cam a2200337 i 4500 384630425 TxAuBib 20190612120000.0 180831s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018041553 9780525522713 0525522719 (OCoLC)1040198856 TxAuBib rda Ridker, Andrew,. The altruists : a novel / Andrew Ridker. [New York, New York] : Viking, [2019] 308 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his much-younger girlfriend, and his kids won't speak to him. And then there's the money--the small fortune his late wife Francine kept secret, which she bequeathed directly to his children. Those children are Ethan, an anxious recluse living off his mother's money on a choice plot of Brooklyn real estate; and Maggie, a would-be do-gooder trying to fashion herself a noble life of self-imposed poverty. On the verge of losing the family home, Arthur invites his children back to St. Louis under the guise of a reconciliation. But in doing so, he unwittingly unleashes a Pandora's box of age-old resentments and long-buried memories--memories that orbit Francine, the matriarch whose life may hold the key to keeping them together. 20190612. College teachers Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Widowers Fiction. Father and child Fiction. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Adult children of dysfunctional families Fiction. Domestic fiction.