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Very Cold People

By: Sarah Manguso
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
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Longlisted for the Wingate Prize

Financial Times Best Debuts

Guardian's Best Fiction of the Year

Once home to the country's most illustrious families, Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is now an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in this frigid landscape, Ruthie 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.

In Very Cold People Sarah Manguso reveals the suffocating constraints of growing up in a very old, and very cold, small town. Here lies a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smouldering rage . . .

©2022 Penguin Random House LLC (P)2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
Coming of Age Fiction Women's Fiction

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"I can’t think of a writer, who is at once so formally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso." (Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man)

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