âA DAZZLING DEBUTâ SARAH WINMAN
âFOR FANS OF ELENA FERRANTEâŠSTUNNINGâWOMANâS WEEKLY
âVIVID AND AUTHENTICâWASHINGTON POST
âNAOMI KRUPITSKY'S WORDS SINGâŠI COULDN'T PUT IT DOWNâ JOANNA GLEN
âGRIPPINGâŠA TENSE, NUANCED DEBUTâPLATINUM
âVIVIDLY-DRAWNâŠBEAUTIFUL. I LOVED IT!â CHRISTINA SWEENEY-BAIRD
*A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick**Book of the Month club**One of âs Best Historical Fiction of 2021*Cosmopolitan*One of PopSugarâs Best New Books of 2021*
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A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself.
Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.
Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathersâ unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love. But the disappearance of Antoniaâs father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. And as they push against the boundaries of societyâs expectations and fight to preserve their complex but life-sustaining friendship, one fateful night their loyalty to each other and the Family will be tested.
Only one of them can pull the trigger before itâs too late.
For fans of Elena Ferrante and Maggie OâFarrell, introduces a stunning new voice in literary fiction.The Family
âA tense, engrossing novelâ, starred reviewBooklist
âA riveting story powerful in its realismâDiane Chamberlain, author ofBig Lies in a Small Town
âA tremendous debutâFiona Davis, author ofThe Lions of Fifth Avenue
âLoyalty, love, loss and redemption take this well told tale to a searing conclusionâAdriana Trigiani
âKrupitsky beautifully captures Sofia and Antoniaâs day-to-day lives under never-ending tensionâPublishers Weekly
âFast-paced and readableâKirkus Reviews
âA nuanced evocation of lifelong female friendship in all its shifting, messy, gorgeous complexityâWhitney Scharer, author ofThe Age of Light
âLyrical, gripping, and richly evocativeâChristina Schwarz, author of andDrowning RuthBonnie
âSweeping and consumingâSusie Orman Schnall, author ofWe Came Here to Shine
âA powerful story of friendship and loyaltyâŠexquisiteâJennifer S. Brown, author ofModern Girls
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