What if the perfect lawn hid a sinkhole? We begin in the Burnham kitchen, a beige world of hissing coffee and forced pleasantries, where our narrator, Lester Burnham, calmly informs us he will be dead in less than a year. This is the story of that year. Lester is a man adrift in a sea of suburban malaise, while his wife Carolyn polishes surfaces that will never love her back. Their home, framed...
