The SlapAt a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all seeing eye on to that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty first century. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were