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AMONG THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS
By: 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 doesnβt 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 Jackβs secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but itβs delivered into the wrong hands: her childrenβs.
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 canβt possibly understand. Writing with extraordinary precision, humor, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family lifeβtheir brittleness, and their resilience.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - July 23, 2015
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