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Publisher's summary
The Instant New York Times Best Seller
A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club pick
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 20th-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 fathers’ 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 Antonia’s father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. Their hearts expand in tandem with Red Hook and Brooklyn around them, as they push against the boundaries of society’s 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 it’s too late.
Critic reviews
A TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick
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A Book of the Month Pick
One of Parade’s Best Fall Books of 2021
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One of PopSugar’s Best New Books of November 2021
One of Bustle’s Best Books of November 2021
One of Real Simple’s Best Books of 2021
One of Katie Couric Media’s Best Books About Female Friendship
“Vivid, authentic and filled with the unexpected… Once you read this novel of blood and love, promises and betrayal, you may never look at family in quite the same way again.” —Washington Post
“Krupitsky’s immersive debut is an intoxicating hybrid of The Sopranos and the novels of Elena Ferrante…The writing is downright dazzling….” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Mario Puzo meets Elena Ferrante in Krupitsky’s dynamite debut novel...Fans of Adriana Trigiani and Lynda Cohen Loigman will inhale this tense, engrossing novel about family ties, women’s friendships, and the treacherous complications of loyalty.” —Booklist, starred review
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By: Elizabeth Musser
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In the Time of Our History
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- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
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- Unabridged
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable
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By: Susanne Pari
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
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For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and her sister, Tina, must come of age side by side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Misogyny at its worst
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By: Juliet Grames
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I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying
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In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying, Bassey Ikpi explores her life - as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist - through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey bares her own truths and lies for us all to behold with radical honesty and brutal intimacy.
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A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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By: Isabella Hammad
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On Division
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In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her 10 children range in age from 13 to 39. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor of their house. Her daughter Tzila Ruchel lives on the second. She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. Wed when Surie was 16, they have a happy marriage and a full life, and, at the ages of 57 and 62, they are looking forward to some quiet time together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great book
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By: Goldie Goldbloom
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Two Crosses
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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The glimmering Huguenot cross she so innocently wears leads her deep into the shadows. When Gabriella Madison arrives in the French village of Castelnau in 1961 to continue her university studies, she doesn’t anticipate being drawn into the secretive world behind the Algerian war for independence from France. And the further she delves into the war efforts, the more her faith is challenged. The people who surround her bring a whirlwind of transforming forces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Faith, Romance, Spies, and Fascinating History
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By: Elizabeth Musser
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A Nail Through The Heart
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 520
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Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ever been to Bangkok?
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Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children, and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It’s everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Confused by the choice of narrator
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One True Thing
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 448
A young woman sits in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her dying mother. She didn't do it, but she thinks she knows who did. In the last months of her life, Ellen Gulden's mother revealed startling secrets that challenged everything Ellen believed about her family. Now, in jail, Ellen believes those secrets will tell her who had the courage to end her mother's suffering.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quindlen's writing skills shine in One True Thing.
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The Parted Earth
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- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti’s debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the partition of the Indian subcontinent on the lives of three generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- By MSE on 05-14-21
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What Storm, What Thunder
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The Earth had buckled, and, in that movement, all that was not in its place fell upon the Earth’s children, upon the blameless as well as the guilty, without discrimination. At the end of a long sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster
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5 out of 5 stars
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We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Though Diane Randall’s jewelry business is a great success, her marriage is not, and she finds herself growing lonely as her children near adulthood. Meanwhile, her eighteen-year-old daughter Julia is falling dangerously in love, and Diane’s mother, Jean, is relishing her newfound freedom as a single woman in Europe. Distracted by their individual concerns, the three women are ill-prepared for the crisis that suddenly appears on Diane’s doorstep in the form of a handsome FBI agent asking about an explosive secret that’s laid buried for decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nancy! Is there a sequel? What?
- By PattieLynn on 12-02-22
By: Nancy Thayer
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- 12-03-21
It’s ok
The book was interesting to a certain point. Too much description of fake feelings. I screamed a few times get to the point. And it ended in a way like OK is that all there is.The person reading the story kind of took away from the story she was so droll ,No expression in her voice at all. I might’ve liked the book a little more had I just read it instead of listening.In her next book he also needs to get to the point a little quicker
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Lisa C.
- 02-13-22
Enjoyable Family Read
I enjoyed the narrator, the book while slow at times was a good read about friendship and how it ebbs and flows
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Val
- 12-27-21
Never really went anywhere
Just a dull slow story of mafia life. No real build up or intense action. I waited on a thrilling event or drama. Nothing. Didn’t do it for me.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Kellene Leone
- 04-29-22
Superb!
Absolutely phenomenal! This book weaves the most beautiful love/adventure story of family and life and relationships. I put this into my top 10 favorite books.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Maryanne T.
- 05-14-22
Italian Mafia and Brooklyn in the 1920s
3 stars for this historical fiction that takes place in Brooklyn, NY, in the 1920s and is about two little girls who grow up next door to each other and are more like sisters than friends. I loved the sense of place and time and felt like the author did a fantastic job of transporting the reader to the Sunday dinner table eating homemade pasta in this middleclass Catholic Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn. You can read the synopsis on the cover of the book, so I won't retell that. But the book really tells the story about the relationship between the girls as they grow up in the "Family" (Italian mafia) and how their paths diverge and then come together again. It was good. I think I wanted a little something more from the character development as some of the themes (mafia hits, murdered fathers, coming of age in the 20s, and postpartum depression) were pretty heavy. I would recommend it, but the historical aspects outweigh the fiction in this one.
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- Sheila Lindsey
- 01-10-23
Great story.
Family endures the unthinkable. Friendships are held for life. Post Brooklyn and red hook. I truly enjoyed this read.
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- Josephine DeCesaris
- 11-10-21
So sow
I kept thinking it would get better. Just an ok book. I don’t suggest it, not what I was hoping for.
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- Meghann
- 01-07-22
Very Steady Plot
Nothing too exciting. No highs and lows. A very steady listen. Didn’t mind it but kept hoping for something more.
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- Taryn
- 11-27-21
great first novel
I enjoyed listening to this first novel. It was typical for "chic lit" however, it had a more unique story line about life in the Italian mafia viewed from the daughters and wives perspective which was more interesting.The relationship between the girls was well developed and her descriptions of postpartum depression before the days of antidepressants was excellent. All in all it was a good listen, not a great book but it kept my interest!
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- TheMom
- 07-13-23
Absolutely the Family
If you’re in one of these families, you know the family law. Family is everything you cannot ever leave.
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