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A thoughtful, provocative novel for our time--the indelible story of a lifelong reckoning between two women, from the author of Pearl and Circling My Mother.

Quin Archer is the revenge-loving queen of the reality TV show Payback, and has dedicated her life to confronting and outing the guilty. But long before she was a star, Quin was an angry teenage student at a private New England girls' school, whose closest confidant was her art teacher, Agnes. But when Quin (then known as Heidi) turned to Agnes for help in a moment of desperate need, Agnes's stunned response devastated them both. Payback is a powerful tale of #MeToo misunderstanding, from a time before there was language to contain it, and of the reverberations of our actions across the years. It is a remarkable book about the precise weight of our words and deeds from a writer whose moral vision is deeply rewarding in its subtlety.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780593082546
  • ISBN-10: 0593082540
  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: August 2021
  • Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
  • Page Count: 352

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