Greenwich: A Novel [Hardcover]

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A stunning debut...Fast-paced, beautifully written, vividly peopled,Greenwichis impossible to put down.  Adrienne Brodeur, bestselling author ofLittle Monsters

Summer, 1999. Rachel Fiske is almost eighteen when she arrives at her aunt and uncles mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her glamorous aunt is struggling to heal from an injury, and Rachel wants to helpand escape her own troubles back home. But her aunt is oddly spacey and her uncle is consumed with business, and Rachel feels lonely and adrift, excluded from the world of adults and their secrets. The only bright spot is Claudia, a recent college graduate, aspiring artist, and the live-in babysitter for Rachels cousin. As summer deepens, Rachel eagerly hopes their friendship might grow into more.

But when a tragic accident occurs, Rachel must make a pivotal choice. Caught between her desire to do the right thing and to protect her future, shes the only one who knows what really happenedand her decision has consequences far beyond what she could have predicted.

A riveting debut novel for readers of Celeste Ng and Liane Moriarty,Greenwichexplores the nature of desire and complicity against the backdrop of immense wealth and privilege, the ways that whiteness and power protect their own, and the uneasy moral ambiguity of redemption.

[An] insightful debut.. Fans of Celeste NgsLittle Fires Everywhereought to take note. Publishers Weekly

This gothic and atmospheric debut novel is absorbingly paced with cutting depictions of dysfunctional family dynamics, exlÓ%