The Tax Inspector
Maria Takis, eight months pregnant and on her own, arrives to audit the Catchprice family's failing car dealership in western Sydney, where a chain-smoking matriarch, her damaged children and a grandson with visions of angels are all living on top of the business. Four days inside the yard bring the audit up against what three generations of the family have been doing to each other. Carey's bleakest book, and the one that most divided his readers.
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