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A House Divided Cannot Stand is a novel about a family drama. The story title is based on a quote from the New Testament of the the Christian Bible.

Plot[]

A grandmother in her 80's has three daughters. She has always been a successful businesswoman and she values all her three daughters equal. But this changes when her eldest daughter, Emily, decides to take over the family business. Emily expands the company and hires employees and it flourishes like never before. Emily has time to visit her mother almost every day and she receives an undue amount of money for the things she does for her mother. The other two daughters have a normal job and life, but after a while they find out they are subordinated and they team up against the mother-daughter collaboration, with mixed success, because they both have their own problems as well.

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