Unanimous Entertainment to produce adaptation of Women’s Prize for Fiction (formally The Orange prize) winner MAY WE BE FORGIVEN by A.M. Homes.
Set in suburban America, MAY WE BE FORGIVEN masterfully dissects and deftly portrays the minutiae of dysfunctional American family life. Thrilling and darkly comic, the story has all the trappings of an American classic. The chair of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction award, Miranda Richardson, described the book as “a dazzling, original, viscerally funny black comedy – a subversion of the American dream.” In his blurb for the book, Salman Rushdie said “This novel starts at maximum force -- and then it really gets going. I can't remember when I last read a novel of such narrative intensity; an unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing.” In the Los Angeles Times, Carolyn Kellogg commented “Homes crams a tremendous amount of ambition into May We Be Forgiven, with its dark humor, its careening plot, its sex-strewn suburb and a massive cast of memorable characters...its riskiest content, however, is something different: sentiment. This is a Tin Man story, in which the zoned-out Harry slowly grows a heart.”