Ordinary New Yorkers are brought together in a story of betrayal race what connects us to
each other - and what sets us apart ***A ROXANE GAY BOOK CLUB 2024 SELECTION*** 'A
marvel... A masterpiece' PAUL HARDING 'Prescient and profound' BRYAN WASHINGTON Brooklyn
2020. Theo Harper and his blonde blue-eyed pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer
cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their fancy apartment building has this
privilege: not Xavier the restless teenager in the Cardi B t-shirt nor Darla's black best
friend Ruby and her partner Katsumi who stay behind to save their restaurant. During an
upstate hike Theo lets slip a long-held secret about his mixed-up ancestry - and when Darla
disappears after the ensuing argument he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect at the
centre of a front-page police search for the perfect missing woman. 'A lush study' RAVEN
LEILANI 'Riveting and original' CHARMAINE WILKERSON
