Elliot Vance has turned conflict into a high-priced service. Through Dialectic Interventions LLC, his specialists argue on behalf of clients who cannot bear to fight their own battles: neighbors contest fences, relatives dispute inheritances, and couples outsource their anger while preserving the appearance of civility. Elliot believes every disagreement can be reduced to procedure, every emotional outburst managed, and every messy relationship kept at a safe professional distance. His carefully engineered world runs on scripts, tactical research, acoustic tactics, encrypted escrow, and the promise that no client need expose a vulnerable truth.That system begins to fail when two high-priority assignments point toward the same event: the Vance family's fortieth-anniversary banquet at the Grand Oak Pavilion. Elliot is forced to look beyond the data and confront the history he has kept at arm's length. His parents, Arthur and Eleanor, have spent decades carrying hurts and fears they struggle to say aloud. Elliot's company has trained people to speak for others, but the most consequential words in his own family cannot be delivered by a hired proxy.As the anniversary approaches, Elliot's professional team-including the formidable Jasper Mercer, operations specialist Tobias Finch, and veteran arbiter Clara Higgins-finds itself entangled in a crisis that threatens the firm's methods and Elliot's belief in emotional distance. The machinery he built to keep people from hurting one another becomes a way to keep them from being honest. Each carefully timed exchange exposes the limits of winning an argument when the real need is to be heard.The Professional Family Feud combines dry corporate comedy, intricate rhetorical maneuvering, and an intimate family drama. Against the backdrop of a meticulously planned banquet, it asks what happens when the expert who can manage everyone else's disagreements finally has to face his own. Elliot must decide whether to preserve the immaculate system he controls or risk speaking without a script, accepting that genuine reconciliation is neither a contract nor a guaranteed outcome. The result is a story about inherited silence, aging parents, professional pride, and the difficult, imperfect work of saying what matters to the people who matter most. As the banquet draws near, the distinction between a flawlessly managed dispute and a healed relationship becomes impossible to ignore. The final choice belongs to Elliot alone.
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