An expert in fake identities is forced by circumstance to reinvent herself repeatedly to safeguard her children, a strategy that leads to a prestigious teaching job before her fears of discovery culminate in increasingly desperate and violent acts. By the <I>New York Times<I> best-selling author of <I>Smashed<I> and <I>Mother, Mother<I>. - (Baker & Taylor)
An expert in fake identities is forced by circumstance to reinvent herself repeatedly to safeguard her children, a strategy that leads to a prestigious teaching job before her fears of discovery culminate in increasingly desperate and violent acts. - (Baker & Taylor)
<b>By the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of<i> Mother, Mother</i> and <i>Smashed </i>comes<i> </i>a propulsive new thriller: the story of a desperate and devious woman who will do anything to give her family a better life<br><br> </b>Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors—young children, marriage, money—and she’s settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy’s failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to return to the creatively illegal and high-stakes lifestyle of her past in order to keep all that she’s worked so hard to have. Gracie, underneath all that’s marked her life as average, has a lot to hide about where she’s from, who she is, and who she’s been. And when things inevitably begin to spin out of her control, more questions about the truth of her past are raised, including all the ones she never meant to, or even knew to, ask. <br> <br> Written with the style, energy, and penetrating insight that made her memoir <i>Smashed</i> a phenomenon, Koren Zailckas's next novel confirms her growing reputation as a psychological novelist that can stand up to the best of them. - (Random House, Inc.)