No Book but the World

✍ Scribed by Leah Hager Cohen

• Book ID: 115173162
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 388 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780698152717

✦ Synopsis

"Lush, dark and unsettling,No Book but the World haunted me for days. With great skill, Leah Hager Cohen takes us through a twisty and resonant tale about the price of secrets, the burden of family, the remnants of childhood we never leave behind." --Megan Abbott, author of The End of Everything and Dare Me

From the acclaimed author of The Grief of Others and 2019's searing new novel Strangers and Cousins.

At the edge of a woods, on the grounds of a defunct "free school," Ava and her brother, Fred, shared a dreamy and seemingly idyllic childhood--a world defined largely by their imaginations and each other's presence. Everyone is aware of Fred's oddness or vague impairment, but his parents' fierce disapproval of labels keeps him free of evaluation or intervention, and constantly at Ava's side.
Decades later, then, when Ava learns that her brother is...