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A Novel
Riverhead Books
August 2022
On Sale: August 9, 2022
Featuring: Anna
304 pages
ISBN: 0593083288
EAN: 9780593083284
Kindle: B09LH9QF1D
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery | Thriller | Coming of Age
Growing up in working class Boston in an Italian American family, Anna’s childhood was sparse but comfortable—filled with homemade pasta sauce and a close-knit neighborhood. Anna and her sisters are devoted to their mother, orbiting her like the sun, trying to keep up with her loving but mercurial nature as she bounces between tenderness and bitterness.
When their father gets a new job outside the city, the family is tossed unceremoniously into a middle-class suburban existence. Anna’s mother is suddenly adrift, and the darkness lurking inside her expands until it threatens to explode. Her daughters, trapped with her in the new house, isolated, must do everything they can to keep her from unraveling.
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