Very Cold People
Hogarth
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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE The masterly debut novel from an exquisitely astute writer (The Boston Globe), about growing up in and out of the suffocating constraints of small-town America.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight. The New York Times Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend. The New YorkerONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping My parents didn t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway. For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country s oldest and most illustrious families the Cabots, the Lowells: the first, best people by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New...