Everything you need to understand or teach The Bee Sting by Paul Murray.
In Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, the Barnes family begins to struggle when Dickie Barnes's car business fails. His wife Imelda, daughter Cass, and son PJ are impacted by Dickie's increasingly dishonest and hermetic behaviors. Over the course of the novel, Dickie, Imelda, Cass, and PJ search for ways to ameliorate their growing domestic conflicts. Written from the second and third person points of view, the novel explores themes including entrapment, identity, and the past.