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The Sabbathday River

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

On a warm September morning in 1985, not far from the town of Goddard, New Hampshire, Naomi Roth finds the body of a newborn girl floating in the Sabbathday river. The community makes its own accusations. Heather Pratt, a young single mother infamous for her affair with a married man, must be the prime suspect. And after a long interrogation behind closed doors Heather confesses to the crime.

Moved and angered by Heather’s plight Naomi engages the help of Judith Friedman, a friend and lawyer, to defend the young woman. But when the truth at the heart of this astonishing case finally comes to light, it is Naomi who must confront how little she has truly understood her town, her friend, and herself.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Jean
Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of one book of poems, The Properties of Breath, and three previous novels, A Jury of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, The Devil and Webster, and The White Rose, as well as a novel for children, Interference Powder. She has also published essays in the anthologies Modern Love and Because I Said So, and in the magazines Vogue, Real Simple, More, Newsweek, Organic Style, Travel and Leisure (Family), and others. She lives in Princeton, NJ with her husband (Irish poet Paul Muldoon, poetry editor at the New Yorker and Princeton poetry professor) and two children. (from Publisher)
Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of one book of poems, The Properties of Breath, and three previous novels, A Jury of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, The Devil and Webster, and The White Rose, as well as a novel for children, Interference Powder. She has also published essays in the anthologies Modern Love and Because I Said So, and in the magazines Vogue, Real Simple, More, Newsweek, Organic Style, Travel and Leisure (Family), and others. She lives in Princeton, NJ with her husband (Irish poet Paul Muldoon, poetry editor at the New Yorker and Princeton poetry professor) and two children. (from Publisher)
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Author
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Publisher
MacMillan Publishers Ltd., Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Nominating Library
Cork City Libraries - Ireland

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