I read Rabbit Is Rich, the third novel in the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy by John Updike.
Inflation, the Iran hostage crisis and the unquiet dead dominate Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom's life in 1979. Ten years after man landed on the moon, Harry has reconciled with his wife Janice and inherited a pre-owned car lot from her father. In addition to his father-in-law, the swelling number of dead include his mom and pop, a girl named Jill who didn't escape Harry's burning house in Rabbit Redux, a drifter called Skeeter whose obituary reaches Harry by mysterious means and the one that haunts him the most: Rebecca, his infant daughter who drowned in a bath tub in Rabbit, Run.
A visitor to the lot sends Harry on a search for his daughter from an extramarital affair and his son returns from college with a secret and a desire to go into the family business.
Amid political, economical and familial turmoil, Rabbit invests wisely, plays golf with his rich buddies, vacations in the Caribbean and is happy, perhaps for the first time, with his marriage.
I've read the first two Rabbit novels by John Updike: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux. Rich is the best of the three. It won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction in the year I was born.
