Very Cold People

✍ Scribed by Sarah Manguso

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 94 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0593241223

✦ Synopsis

The eagerly awaited debut novel from " one of the most original and exciting writers working in English today" (Jhumpa Lahiri): a masterwork on growing up in --and out of--the suffocating constraints of small-town America.

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 --Oprah Daily, Good Housekeeping, The Week, The Millions, She Reads, Lit Hub

" My parents didn't belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway."**
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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....