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Among the Ten Thousand Things
Julia Pierpont
Random House
July 2015
On Sale: July 7, 2015
337 pages
ISBN: 0812995228
EAN: 9780812995220
Kindle: B00OWWOLM0
Hardcover / e-Book
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For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie
Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand
Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an
American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a
startlingly original story of love and time lost.
Jack Shanley is a well-known New York
artist, charming and vain, who doesn’t mean to plunge his
family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a
difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she
adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming
face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But
then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a
cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails
chronicling Jack’s secret life. The package is addressed to
Deb, but it’s delivered into the wrong hands: her
children’s.
With this vertiginous opening
begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and
indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart into
separate orbits, leaving New York in an attempt to regain
their bearings, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the allure of
adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven-year-old Kay
wanders precariously into a grown-up world she can’t
possibly understand. Writing with extraordinary precision,
humor, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless,
hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family life—their
brittleness, and their resilience.
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