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Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths

It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone --- a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress --- wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, Cindy's body is found in a derelict lot a half mile from her home, strangled. Ten days later, Frankie Jr.'s decomposing body is found. Immediately, all fingers point to Ruth. As police investigate the murders, the detritus of her life is exposed.

Week of October 16, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of October 16th include MISTER MONKEY by Francine Prose, which follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical; LITTLE DEATHS, a debut novel from Emma Flint (longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction) that explores the capacity for good and evil in all of us; Beth Macy's TRUEVINE, the true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back; and THE TUNNELS by Greg Mitchell, a thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall.