"Jane Pool thinks she likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, an infuriating mother-in-law, and a quiet, if unfulfilling, administrative job at the local college. Everything is wonderfully, numbingly normal. Yet Jane remains haunted by her past: her mercurial, absent mother, her parents' secrets, and the act of violence that transformed her life. When her estranged twin, Lila, makes contact, claiming to know where their mother is and why she left all those years ago, Jane agrees to join her, desperate for answers and the chance to reconnect with the only person…mehr
"Jane Pool thinks she likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, an infuriating mother-in-law, and a quiet, if unfulfilling, administrative job at the local college. Everything is wonderfully, numbingly normal. Yet Jane remains haunted by her past: her mercurial, absent mother, her parents' secrets, and the act of violence that transformed her life. When her estranged twin, Lila, makes contact, claiming to know where their mother is and why she left all those years ago, Jane agrees to join her, desperate for answers and the chance to reconnect with the only person who has ever known her true self. As the hunt becomes treacherous and pulls the two women to the earth's distant corners, they find themselves up against their mother's subterfuge and the darkness that has always stalked their family. Now Jane stands to lose the life she's made to the one that has been impossible to escape"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
J. Robert Lennon is the author of nine novels, including Familiar,Broken River, and Subdivision, and the story collections Pieces for the Left Hand , See You in Paradise, and Let Me Think. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere, and his criticism in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Nation, and The London Review of Books. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
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