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"Minnow Hunter has always tried to lead the life her single father Christopher modeled--private, quiet, hardworking, apolitical. So she is rocked when a split-second decision makes her the extremely public face of a scandal in the small town where she teaches. She even loses the support of her father, who stops speaking to her when the media start harassing him, too. Overwhelmed, Minnow flees to a teaching position in Paris, hoping distance and time will let her start over. But what if Christopher wasn't always the restrained, conservative man he appears? What if he has a troubled and tragic…mehr

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"Minnow Hunter has always tried to lead the life her single father Christopher modeled--private, quiet, hardworking, apolitical. So she is rocked when a split-second decision makes her the extremely public face of a scandal in the small town where she teaches. She even loses the support of her father, who stops speaking to her when the media start harassing him, too. Overwhelmed, Minnow flees to a teaching position in Paris, hoping distance and time will let her start over. But what if Christopher wasn't always the restrained, conservative man he appears? What if he has a troubled and tragic past that he has taken great pains to bury--from the world and from his daughter?"--
Autorenporträt
Jen Silverman (they/them) is a New York-based writer, playwright, and screenwriter. Silverman is the author of the novels There’s Going to Be Trouble and We Play Ourselves, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, the story collection The Island Dwellers, which was longlisted for a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction, and the poetry chapbook  Bath, selected by Traci Brimhall for Driftwood Press. Additional work has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Their plays have been produced across the United States and internationally, including The Roommate, starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow, on Broadway. Silverman has written on Tales of the City (Netflix) and is a writer-producer on Tokyo Vice Season 2 (Max). They are a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a member of New Dramatists, a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris, and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim.