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What does it mean to be an outsider in a community? How do we keep the ones we love safe? in 1950s suburbia, everything is meant to be perfect, even as paranoia about Communism and nuclear bombs winds its way through the supposed paradise. But when divorced, sensual-without-meaning-to-be, Jewish single mother Ava rents a house with her 12-year-old son, Lewis, she struggles to fit in and find her place in the neighborhood. Lewis finds solace with the only other two fatherless kids on the block, his best friends Jimmy and Rose, but when Jimmy vanishes one day, Ava comes under suspicion, and Rose and Lewis are later forced to confront truths they've long suppressed. A novel about people trying desperately to uncover secrets about the past--and about themselves.
"Riveting." Vanity Fair Hot Type
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A mysterious car crash on a deserted, foggy road brings three people together in a
collision of their own:
A photographer fleeing her philandering husband and consumed with guilt.
An asthmatic boy with a terrible secret.
A husband who realizes that he never really knew his wife.
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