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Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

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Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers THE NEST and GOOD COMPANY. She is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writer’s pick, and her books have been named best of the year by People, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Amazon, Real Simple and others. Sweeney has been a guest on "Today," "Late Night with Seth Meyers" and NPR’s "All Things Considered." THE NEST is currently being adapted by AMC Studios as a limited series. Her work has been translated into 30 languages. Sweeney holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Books by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than 20 years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring --- the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five. Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian’s small theater company --- Good Company --- afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now?

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney - Fiction

The Plumb family is spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of tensions finally reach a breaking point as Melody, Beatrice and Jack Plumb gather to confront their older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got in a car accident that has endangered the Plumbs' joint trust fund, “The Nest,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Now, the siblings must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives.