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FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Cormorant Lake A Novel By Faith Merino When Evelyn Van Pelt returns home with two children who are not her own, she discovers that deeply held secrets always rise to the surface. On a cold November night, Evelyn Van Pelt steals her roommate’s two underfed and neglected little girls from their beds and drives to the northwestern hometown she 8ed fourteen years earlier—Cormorant Lake. There, hidden in the mountains and woods, dense with fog and the cold of winter, Evelyn grapples with the guilt of what she’s done, and as she attempts to reconcile her wild independence with the responsibilities of parenthood, she reconnects with the two women who raised her—her foster mother, Nan, and her biological mother, Jubilee. But by coming home, she has set in motion a series of events that will revive the decades-old tragedy that haunts Cormorant Lake—and lead her to confront the high cost of protecting her secret. At once fantastical and deeply rooted in the natural world, Faith Merino’s deeply affecting and spirited debut novel explores the shape of family, the enduring bonds of friendship, and the imperfections of motherhood—messy and beautiful, instinctive and learned, temporal but permanently life-altering. FAITH MERINO studied English at University of the Paci7c and New York University. Her short 7ction has won awards and honorable mentions from The Moth, the Jabberwock Review, Glimmer Train, and Boulevard, among others. A former journalist, she lives in Sacramento with her husband, sons, and dogs.
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Fiction / Literary (FIC019000) Unabridged • Book #d18u 6 hours • 5 CDs • 1 MP3 CD ISBN-13: Hardcover 9781982640071 , $26.99 Library E-Book 9781982640088 , $34.99 Trade E-Book 9781982640095 , $9.99 Downloads: Yes DRM Required: No Publishing Background: Blackstone Publishing Book ISBN: 9781982640071 Retail per Carton: 80 CDs, 50 MP3 CDs Retail Ship Date: 1/12/21
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