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Book

Very cold people : a novel

Call Number

  • FICTION MANG (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Hogarth, [2022]

Physical Description

191 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"For Ruthie, the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. But this is no picturesque New England. Once 'home of the bean and the cod, where Lowells speak only to Cabots, and Cabots speak only to God,' by the 1980s it is an unforgiving place, awash with secrets. Very Cold People tells Ruthie's story, through her eyes: from the shame handed down through her Italian and Jewish immigrant forebears and indomitable mother, to the violences and silences endured by each of her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to get out of--and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive"--

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