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A Novel
Riverhead Books
July 2022
On Sale: June 21, 2022
Featuring: Anna
304 pages
ISBN: 0593418131
EAN: 9780593418130
Kindle: B09H2BMX8W
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction
How do women directly impact one another with the personal secrets they share? Anna, a writer who is pregnant with her first child, explores this question when she finds that she is a magnet for the private, tender stories of the women around her—strangers and family alike.
In some cases, these stories take the place of more difficult conversations. When Anna’s sister, Margot, calls to say she’s lost a pregnancy no one knew she was carrying, Margot winds up telling a riveting story about a friend and what she has been going through. And when Anna’s own pursuit of motherhood upends her life, the stories become a guiding light to help her tell her own. “I needed stories like this now. I needed them like I needed water and salt, to tell me what was possible in the course of a life after the life you’d planned dies inside you.”
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