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Also by Caroline Leavitt:

With or Without You, August 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Cruel Beautiful World, October 2016
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Cruel Beautiful World
Caroline Leavitt

Algonquin Books
October 2016
On Sale: October 4, 2016
352 pages
ISBN: 1616203633
EAN: 9781616203634
Kindle: B01B3VMC3W
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Historical

Caroline Leavitt is at her mesmerizing best in this haunting, nuanced portrait of love, sisters, and the impossible legacy of family. It’s 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. As Lucy’s default caretaker for most of their lives, Charlotte’s youth has been marked by the burden of responsibility, but never more so than when Lucy’s dream of a rural paradise turns into a nightmare. Cruel Beautiful World examines the intricate, infinitesimal distance between seduction and love, loyalty and duty, and explores what happens when you’re responsible for things you cannot make right.

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