When the empire begins crumbling, due to Jake's Ponzi scheme, we see the effect on Phoebe and their children.
When Madoff's story came out, most people did not believe that Ruth and her children did not know about Bernie's criminal behavior. I also heard people say that if she didn't know, she should have. That might be true, but as a wife of over 40 years, I understand how a wife might blindly trust her husband.
Phoebe knew something was wrong, in the weeks preceding Jake's exposure, but she thought, perhaps, that he was ill. In a matter of weeks, she lost her husband, her children, and her home and fortune.
If you followed the Madoff story, you know how this book ends. It was, however, a well written book and I am looking forward to reading more of Randy Susan Meyer's work.
- Judith Zerulik
Publisher - Simon and Schuster
Date of Publication - April 11, 2017