This wise brilliant novel is so special so overflowing with honesty and love-about motherhood
sisterhood what it's like to be a woman-that every paragraph feels like an epiphany. Hanna
Halperin knows the fierce love that can exist especially among broken things. Something Wild
moved me deeply. -Glennon Doyle #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed A searing
novel about the love and contradictions of sisterhood the intoxicating desires of adolescence
and the traumas that trap mothers and daughters in cycles of violence One weekend sisters
Tanya and Nessa Bloom pause their respective adult lives and travel to the Boston suburbs to
help their mother pack up and move out of their childhood home. For the first time since they
were teenagers sharing a bunk bed over a decade ago they find themselves in the place where
long-kept secrets were born where jealousy comfort anger forgiveness and repulsion coexist
with the fiercest love and loyalty. What they don't expect is for their visit to expose a new
horrifying truth: their mother Lorraine is in a violent relationship. As Tanya urges Lorraine
to get a restraining order Nessa struggles to reconcile her fondness for their stepfather with
his capacity for brutality. Their differing responses to the abuse bring up the sisters' shared
secret-a traumatic unspoken experience from their adolescence has shaped their lives their
sense of selves and their relationship with each other and the men in their life. In the midst
of this family crisis they have no choice but to reckon with the past and face each other in
the present in the hope that there's a way out of the violence so deeply ingrained in the
Bloom family. Told in alternating perspectives that deftly interweave past and present
Something Wild is a magnetic unflinching portrait of the bond between sisters as well as a
psychologically acute exploration of the legacy of divorce the ways trauma reverberates over
generations and how it might be possible to overcome the past. Story Locale: Outside Boston
