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Dupuy took us to Mariposa Avenue, nicknamed Millionaire’s Row because of its huge mansions, including his childhood home, originally built for map publishing magnate Andrew McNally.

All of these characters — even the more objectively callous ones like Father, a retired energy industry magnate writing a revisionist biography to absolve his culpability — teem with empathy.

The assured magnate, the superficial wife, the doted-upon child who was raised so cloistered he whistles canary songs to a tank of crawdads and tries to teach pet tricks to a fish.

The evil business magnate can’t buy his way out of prison.

Also left unsaid: how many people will assist the two magnates and how that staff will be paid.