His wife, beautiful ex-pageant queen Gertie, feels socially ostracized and adrift. Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of safety in a rapidly changing world.Īrlo Wilde, a gruff has-been rock star who’s got nothing to show for his fame but track marks, is always two steps behind the other dads. Like Shirley Jackson, Langan’s work blends a bleak streak with an underlying sense of the humane that wrung my heart.” -Victor LaValle, author of The ChangelingĬeleste Ng’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this propulsive literary noir, when a sudden tragedy exposes the depths of deception and damage in a Long Island suburb - pitting neighbor against neighbor and putting one family in terrible danger. “Sarah Langan is a phenomenal talent with a wicked sense of wry humor. “ A modern-day Crucible….Beneath the surface of a suburban utopia, madness lurks.” -Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs.
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