In a powerful and painful portrait of family relationships, Isabel describes the disintegration of her volatile, destructive family as she struggles to free herself from her capricious mother and violent, abusive father
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“Harrowing . . . it not only succeeds in conveying the horrors that parents may inflict upon their children,
but . . . manages to wring from its heroine’s story the hope and possibility of transcendence.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A brilliant, overheated first novel simmering with everything one wouldn’t want to know about a family: incest, obsession, revenge.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Fascinating . . . Harrison describes twisted family mechanics with a stylish intensity that gives the grimness meaning.”
—The Boston Globe
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KATHRYN HARRISON has written the novels Exposure, Poison, The Binding Chair, The Seal Wife, and Envy. Her autobiographical works include The Kiss, Seeking Rapture, and The Mother Knot. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their three children.
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