We Shall Not All Sleep

✍ Scribed by Nagy, Estep

• Book ID: 110001258
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 506 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781632868411

✦ Synopsis

"An utterly compelling novel from a brilliant new voice.†?-M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans
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_Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks.

1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family--Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue sisters Lila and Hannah Blackwell--they do not mix. Now, on the anniversary of Hannah's death, Lila feels grief pulling her toward Billy. And Jim, a spy recently ousted from the CIA on suspicion of treason, decides to carry out the threat his wife has explicitly forbidden: to banish their youngest son, the twelve-year-old Catta, to the neighboring island of Baffin for twenty-four hours in an attempt to make a man out of him.

With their elders preoccupied, the Hillsinger and Quick children run wild, playing violent games led by Catta's sadistic older brother...