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Very Cold People
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 . . .
Critic Reviews
"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)