{"product_id":"very-cold-people-paperback","title":"Very Cold People - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Manguso\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE - The masterly debut novel from \"an exquisitely astute writer\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), about growing up in--and out of--the suffocating constraints of small-town America. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD - \u003c\/b\u003e\"Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVery Cold People\u003c\/i\u003e reminded me of \u003ci\u003eMy Brilliant Friend\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"My parents didn't belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town's 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, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in--and out of--the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, \u003ci\u003eVery Cold People\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Manguso\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight books. Her previous book, \u003ci\u003e300 Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e, a genre-defying work of aphoristic nonfiction, was named a best book of the year by more than twenty publications. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Her work is regularly featured across \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Los Angeles. \u003ci\u003eVery Cold People\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.87 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760933798176,"sku":"9780593241240","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0c21a1ff81d661ac73aae4bf42502cf5.webp?v=1780194625","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/very-cold-people-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}