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Viking
June 2018
On Sale: May 22, 2018
352 pages
ISBN: 0735221685
EAN: 9780735221680
Kindle: B07561F3K7
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Women's Fiction Psychological
A gripping novel about two young married
couples—expectant parents and new friends—whose lives
collide in a pile-up of deceits and indiscretions It was the exhilaration of new parenthood that first united
Michael and Paul, outside the Brooklyn hospital where their
wives, Rebecca and Jenny, had exiled them from the delivery
room. For Paul, though, tragedy swiftly followed that
euphoria. Hoping to speed his and Jenny’s recovery, he turns
to Michael for a favor, unwittingly kindling the spark of
connection between these couples into the affair that will
blow them apart. One year later, on the same morning that the catastrophes of
their personal lives come to an explosive head, a mysterious
crisis in Midtown Manhattan all but shuts down the city,
leaving both men stranded—Michael at the northernmost tip of
the island and Paul in a dark subway tunnel under the East
River. Each must make the arduous trek home through
record-breaking heat, nervously eyeing the thin plume of
smoke above the skyline, though it’s their private turmoils
that loom largest. Told in the alternating voices of these
charismatic but deeply flawed men, Little Disasters
deftly cuts between the suspense of the citywide disaster
and the history of secrets, lies, and losses that has
brought these four intertwined lives to the brink. Smart,
unsparing, and bitingly funny, Randall Klein’s debut is an
engrossing story of the bonds of love and family—and our
unending urges to test them, even when we need them most.
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