NATIONAL BESTSELLER For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, "Among the Ten Thousand Things" is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost. Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn t mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack s secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it s delivered into the wrong hands: her children s. With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart into separate orbits, leaving New York in an attempt to regain their bearings, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the allure of adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven-year-old Kay wanders precariously into a grown-up world she can t possibly understand. Writing with extraordinary precision, humor, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family life their brittleness, and their resilience. Praise for "Among the Ten Thousand Things" A luscious, smart summer novel . . . about a family blown apart and yet still painfully tethered together, written by a blazingly talented young author whose prose is so assured and whose observations are so precise and deeply felt that it s almost an insult to bring up her age. Helen Schulman, "The New York Times Book Review" "" [An] excellent, insightful first novel . . . a gripping portrait of the disintegration of the Shanley family . . . Pierpont brings this family of four to life in sharply observed detail. . . . An acute observer of social comedy, Ms. Pierpont has a keen eye for the absurd. Moira Hodgson, "The Wall Street Journal" "" Pierpont s language is heart-stopping. . . . Technically, of course, this is a domestic drama. But between Pierpont s literary finesse and her captivating characters, it reads like a page-turner. [Grade: ] A "Entertainment Weekly" "" There are going to be as many ingenious twists and turns in this literary novel as there are in a top-notch work of suspense like "Gone Girl." Maureen Corrigan, NPR s "Fresh Air" Tender, delicately perceptive . . . Pierpont s voice is wry and confident, and she is a fine anthropologist of New York life. "The Washington Post" "" Bracing . . . Pierpont s killer ending reveals the long reach of the affair s consequences (sorry, no plot spoilers). Consider this a twisty, gripping story that packs an emotional wallop. "O: The Oprah Magazine" "" Adebut so honest and mature that it will resonate with even the most action-hungry readers perhaps against reason. Her story is the one we ll be talking about this summer, and well beyond. Meredith Turits, "Vanity Fair" "" Pierpont displays a precocious gift for language and observation. . . . She captures the minutiae of loneliness that pushes us away from each other and sometimes brings us back. "San Francisco Chronicle""

The first book in a major new series from #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, author of "The Midnight Rose"--hailed as "an extraordinary story [and] a complex, deeply engaging tale filled with fascinating characters" ("Library Journal"). Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis"--a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva--having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each sister is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage--a clue that takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story. Eighty years earlier in the Rio of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio's father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is devising plans for an enormous statue, to be called "Christ the Redeemer," and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela--passionate and longing to see the world--convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski's studio and in the heady, vibrant cafes of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again. In this sweeping, epic tale of love and loss--the first in a unique, spellbinding new series--Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talents like never before.

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