Fulfillment tells the story of two half brothers—Joel, a successful academic and author, whose marriage is in deep trouble, and his younger sibling, Emmett, paralyzed by indecision and working in a shipping warehouse—who find themselves at their family home in Kentucky and upend each other’s lives in devastating ways.Between them is Alice, Joel's wife, a wry, passionate young woman whose dream of a small farm feels unattainable, and whose longing for a more authentic life collides with Emmett's hunger for connection and desire to escape a sense of burgeoning failure. As the chemistry between them escalates, the family is plunged into a violent crucible, each character brought to the precipice of immutable catastrophe.Incisive, poignant, gorgeously crafted, Lee Cole's haunting novel about class, privilege, brotherhood, and the American South asks whether people can change, and at what cost, and what it takes to build a life of fulfillment and meaning.
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Fulfillment comes out next week on June 17, 2025, and you can purchase HERE!
"You don't even live here, Emmett said. You don't even live in the South.
He knew this was the weakest point in Joel's intellectual fortifications. He was an outsider. He had gone away by choice and come back to tell the others how miserable their lives were. This was the worst thing you could be in the South. An intellectual carpetbagger.
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