Very Cold People Audiobook Libro.fm

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Longlisted for the Wingate Prize
Financial Times Best Debuts
Guardians Best Fiction of the Year

Once home to the countrys most illustrious families Waitsfield Massachusetts is now an unforgiving place awash with secrets Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie learns how the towns prim facade conceals a deeper darker history and how silence often masks a legacy of harm from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends

In Very Cold People Sarah Manguso reveals the suffocating constraints of growing up in a very old and very cold small town Here lies a vital confrontation with an allAmerican whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smouldering rage

I cant think of a writer who is at once so formally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso Miranda July author of The First Bad Man