-A haunting and beautiful novel- ANN PATCHETT''Had me hooked - brilliant and beautiful'' J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN''Heartbreaking, sexy - exhilarating'' XOCHITAL GONZALEZFrom a dazzling new talent, an utterly gripping debut novel following a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood as she returns to the family home one summer.Every parent exists within two families simultaneously - the one she was born into, and the one she has made.Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family-s lush backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of flashlight tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools, Saturday morning pancakes and a devoted best friend, but her family life requires careful prudence. Her mother can be as brittle as she can be loving, and her father and brother assume familiar, if uncomfortable, models of masculinity. Then late one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and in the wake of that betraya
