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Pegasus Books
August 2018
On Sale: August 7, 2018
368 pages
ISBN: 1681777894
EAN: 9781681777894
Kindle: B077J7VCBX
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Women's Fiction | Literature and Fiction
Acclaimed author Alice Mattison’s new novel explores
the hard choices a young woman and her friends made decades
earlier at the height of the Vietnam War. Decades ago in Brooklyn, three girls demonstrated against
the Vietnam War, and each followed a distinct path into
adulthood. Helen became a violent revolutionary. Val wrote a
controversial book, Bright Morning of Pain, which
was essentially a novelization of Helen’s all-too-short but
vibrant life. And Olive became an editor and writer, now
comfortably settled with her husband, Griff, in modern-day
New Haven. When Olive is asked to write an essay about Val’s book, a
work that attracts and repulses her in equal measure, doing
so brings back to the forefront Olive and Griff’s tangled
histories and their complicated reflections on that
tumultuous time in their young lives. Things only become
more fraught when Griff borrows Olive’s treasured first
edition of the novel—and loses it. Then Griff’s quirky and
audacious new colleague, Jean Argos, finds the book and
begins reading it, setting off a series of events that will
introduce new conflicts, tragedies, and friendships into the
precarious balance of Olive and Griff’s once stable home. Conscience, the dazzling new novel from
award-winning author Alice Mattison, paints the nuanced
relationships between the palpable personalities of Olive,
Griff, and Jean with her signature wit and precision. And as
Mattison explores the ways in which women make a
difference—for good or ill—in the world, she elegantly
weaves together the past and the present, and the political
and the personal.
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