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Overview
It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn, and the city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, have discovered something ominous in their hall closet: it's shaped like a mushroom, it's phosphorescent, and it's rapidly consuming their wall. But that's only the beginning ...
Part suspense, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment's brilliant novel looks at what happens when our lives--so seemingly set and ordered--break down in the wake of calamity.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780804169707
- ISBN-10: 0804169705
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: March 2016
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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