{"product_id":"very-cold-people-by-sarah-manguso","title":"Very Cold People By Sarah Manguso","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEDITORS’ CHOICE • The masterly debut novel from “an exquisitely astute writer” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), about growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of small-town America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD •\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVery Cold People\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereminded me of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMy Brilliant Friend\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNPR,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLos Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e“My parents didn’t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eForged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town’s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harm—from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVery Cold People\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wide Genre","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":47513240928476,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":47513240961244,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/2044\/5148\/files\/TheChainByAdrianMcKinty_1054882c-be38-4b5c-8035-6b89181aa995.png?v=1769784097","url":"https:\/\/widegenre.com\/products\/very-cold-people-by-sarah-manguso","provider":"WideGenre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}