Beginning ~ with a statue

Run ~ by Ann Patchett, 2007, fiction (Massachusetts)

Bernadette had been dead two weeks when her sisters showed up in Doyle's living room asking for the statue back.

I've heard good things about this book and am finding it's as good as Randi said.  If you've read this novel, please tell me what you thought about it.  Here's a summary of the story:

Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father.  As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared.  But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard cares about is his ability to keep his children — all his children — safe.

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