Format: Hardcover; ISBN: 0316182745; Release Date: Sep 2006; List Price: $24.99; Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; Length: 387 pages. Condition: Very Good. Remainder marked and has significant shelfdust, but jacket and cover are both still in overall good shape, binding is strong, and pages are otherwise unmarked. Same cover design as that shown here.

Synopsis:
When Michael, an L.A. artist, commits suicide it brings together two utterly unalike women: Michael's punk girlfriend and his severe and dominating concert-pianist mother who holds her responsible for the tragedy. As in her pitch-perfect WHITE OLEANDER, Janet Fitch weaves dark and intricate spider-web relationships between her characters, with each strand adding to the novel's delicious complexity. Everyone here is damaged, in some cases irreparably, but their feverish humanity burns on the page, and hope flickers beneath the darkness.

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