Tal's distractedness and frustrations lead to an unexpected outburst that threatens his career and his marriage; Mariah uses her husband to chase a new lead.
Set in the worlds of politics, Ivy League academia, and the beaches of Martha's Vineyard, Talcott Garland, an Ivy League law professor whose quiet life is shattered when his father, Judge Oliver Garland, dies of an apparent heart attack. The nature of the judge's passing is questioned by Tal's sister, Mariah, a former journalist and inveterate conspiracy theorist, who believes that the judge, a failed Black nominee to the Supreme Court, met with foul play.
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