Very Cold People (Manguso Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

The masterly debut novel from "an exquisitely astute writer" (The Boston Globe), about growing up in--and out of--the suffocating constraints of small-town America. "Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight."--The New York Times "Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend."--The New Yorker ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Good Housekeeping "My parents didn't belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway."

For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country's oldest and most illustrious families--the Cabots, the Lowells: the "first, best people"--by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in
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