Laura Sims
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor--a beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what began as an innocent preoccupation...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist,...