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Ocean State
Stewart O'Nan

Grove Press
March 2022
On Sale: March 15, 2022
Featuring: Angel; Carol; Birdy
240 pages
ISBN: 0802159273
EAN: 9780802159274
Kindle: B09B18S11B
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life | Coming of Age | Small Town

The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight.

Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O’Nan’s expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women, but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island.

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