Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: an iconic satire of contemporary America and WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013, in which a momentary loss of control catapults two vying brothers into new lives, wherein loyalties are tested and families crumble.

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Reads like a brilliant miniseries ... has the narrative intensity of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and the emotional punch of Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved.' Observer Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his taller, smarter, and more successful younger brother George acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in New York City. But Harry also knows his brother has a murderous temper. When George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both must seek absolution. Suddenly Harry finds himself playing parent to his brother's two adolescent children, tumbling down a rabbit hole of online sex, and dealing with aging parents who move through life like travellers on a fantastic voyage. And he is forced to confront the ways in which our histories can either compel us to repeat our mistakes - or become the catalyst for change. May We Be Forgiven is a darkly funny tale exploring how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together. 'An unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing' Salman Rushdie

"Reads like a brilliant miniseries. I gorged on it like a DVD boxset... Homes is dark and funny and elegant all at the same time. [This] has the narrative intensity of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and the emotional punch of Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved, all told through the eyes of Larry David. It's the best thing I've read this year... Masterful" - Observer

"Wonderful, wild, heartbreaking, hilarious and astonishing... This is a piercing, perceptive and deeply funny novel about the nature of life, family and love" - Independent on Sunday

"Exhilarating" - Observer

"The most thrilling, ambitious, thought-provoking American novel to have emerged in a long while" - Independent on Sunday

"Every page crackles with wit and intelligence" - Spectator

"One of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation" - Telegraph Magazine

"Laugh out loud funny... Completely wonderful. Extraordinary" - Saturday Review

"Being a clever American novel, this is also an examination of the American dream... but, wherever you live, Homes's sharp, detailed prose will teem with gloriously free, un-airbrushed life" - Sunday Telegraph

"A brilliantly funny tale of a fractured family... [An] unmissable novel" - Marie Claire

"Homes returns with another stylish read... Those who wish Jonathan Franzen wrote more frequently will devour Homes's work, and rightly so" - Elle Magazine

"Funny, nerve-touching, intelligent and even heartbreakingly sweet. You won't read many like this one, that's for sure" - Psychologies

"Her language is precise, her observations astute, her style punchy, her view of the world dark, but somehow accurate - disturbingly so" - Sunday Times

"To call [this] "compelling" would be an understatement; it is a novel as compulsive as its characters" - Financial Times

"Homes manages a high-wire act in [this]. There are moments of outright satire... but these are always held in tandem to moments of real emotional engagement and insight... Sparkling" - Scotsman

"A vitriolic satire of contemporary American society, often very funny and at times completely savage... Homes crafts a bold and genuinely disturbing attack on vanity, money-lust and our Faustian pact with materialism" - Literary Review

"[A] humane, comic story of a good man trying to do the right thing" - Vogue

"A novel of great scope, taking some truly hideous events and spiking them with humour and realism" - Emerald Street

"A tour-de-force of pitch-black comedy... Excellent" - Guardian

"Horribly funny and unexpectedly uplifting" - Daily Mail

"Bleakly funny" - Metro

"Immensely likeable and sustained throughout by a vividly described plot heaving with believable grotesques... Homes has a feel for the comedic that is as well developed as her chillingly direct grasp of horror... A funny, fast-moving, picaresque, baggy satire" - Irish Times

"Blackly humorous" - Independent

"Capable, likeable, readable" - New Statesman

"Brilliant... Homes draw[s] fascinatingly complex, flawed characters whose domestic situations run scarily outside their own control. Do yourself a favour and read this book" - Bella

"Humane [and] comic" - Vogue

"A bonkers yet quite brilliant book ... It deserves to be called a work of art" - The Times

"Homes plays with the substance of the American dream, and gives us a horrific, internet-age deconstruction... only connect, Homes tells us, and we can escape the nightmare of the 21st century" - Telegraph

"Complex, nuanced and so engrossing that it makes you wish the real world would go away and leave you to read... A huge-hearted expansive book, simultaneously nightmare-black and extremely funny" - Independent

"She has a deadpan understated humour that builds line by line into comic intent" - Guardian

"[A] comic epic of modern America" - New Statesman

"[Homes'] dialogue is extremely funny, worthy of a stand-up comic-rapid and raw... Unrelenting and endlessly inventive" - New York Book Review

"Her biggest, broadest, most spacious novel yet, a dark carnival of American life in the 21st century... Cool, controlled... extraordinarily lucid" - Interview Magazine

"One of the strangest, most gripping and satisfyingly ugly books I've read in a long time" - Big Issue

"Laced with her trademark dark humour and emotional intensity, it's also a savage meditation on sex, violence, success, fulfilment and modern life... Epic" - Diva

"This is the great American novel for our time" - Guardian

"Wonderful, strange... at once dystopian and utopian, hovering somewhere between satire and sentiment" - National

"One of the best new American novels" - Times Literary Supplement

"The incendiary A.M. Homes exposes the black-comic mayhem behind the American front door" - Independent

"Sit back and enjoy Homes's delicious black humour, her sharp characterisation, and thrilling narrative intensity" - Independent on Sunday

"[A] compelling dysfunctional family saga... Homes doesn't chronicle US life as much as take a cleaver to it and relish in the blood-splattered aftermath" - Metro

"I would not lose a word of her whip-sharp wit or unerring dialogue... Truly to die for" - Jewish Chronicle

"A white-knuckle black comedy about the vagaries of 21st-century living" - Scotsman

"[It] is a savage and dizzyingly inventive satire on contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer... Inspiring" - Stylist

"Truly original, highly topical and yet, I suspect, utterly timeless" - Laissez Faire

"You'd have to have no sense of the absurd, and no sense of humour, not to be pretty impressed" - Guardian

"Compulsive and authentic" - Sunday Herald

"Touching and uplifting" - Daily Telegraph

"Dazzling" - Sunday Telegraph

"A bristly, bumpy ride of a novel" - Daily Express

"At once affecting and uproarious, the characters that Homes so deftly conjures will stay with readers well beyond when the final pages are turned" - Kill Your Darlings

"Searing" - Mail on Sunday

"It's strong stuff, and all the better for it" - Guardian

"Horribly funny and unexpectedly uplifting... Sensational" - Daily Mail

"Acutely observed" - Women and Home

"A novel that has everything: laughs; sibling hatred; horrifying turns of events; online misadventures... and the general meaning of life" - Mail on Sunday

"Darkly funny and compelling... [It] is the latest in a series of novels that display Homes' talent as one of the most consistently talented, funny and challenging storytellers of her generation" - Huffington Post

"Hilariously clever" - Observer

"This has all her mordant wit and close observation of flawed humanity" - Daily Mail

"[A] deeply enjoyable tale of festering sibling rivalry gone horribly wrong" - Pride

"A big American novel about family... funny and edging towards surreal in places. The book has a huge heart and an easy brilliance. A novel with everything" - Metro

"One of those rare delights: a weird, scary, comic novel that actually makes you laugh out loud" - Mail on Sunday

"The wicked humour draws you in, but the cracking energy keeps you reading; there's a fierceness here that makes this tale of violence and family life quite unforgettable" - Stylist