Fiction. Library Journal says of this highly acclaimed literary thriller, "Perceptive, gritty, and compelling, this is an absorbing book that dives headfirst into issues facing recovering addicts...beautifully written and richly detailed." Clara Sverdlow has been stalked by her high school lover for almost 20 years. Recently sober in her mid-thirties, she has found happiness in a tenuous marriage to Mark, another recovering alcoholic. Yet the past lurks over them like a great shadow, always encroaching on their happiness.

Author City: SOUTHAMPTON, NY USA

Kaylie Jones moved to Sagaponack, New York, in 1975, where her family continued to live for more than thirty years. She is the author of five novels, including A SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES (Akashic Books, 2003) and the memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me (William Morrow & Company, 2009). She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton and in the Wilkes University low-residency MFA program in professional writing.