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The First House: A Novel

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“Each page is sharp, piercing, and totally defiant of the expected.” —Douglas Stuart

“[A] beautiful book that delights in resisting its readers’ expectations.” —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author

From the Booker Prize finalist author of Burnt Sugar comes a riveting and lyrical novel of rupture and rebirth, of one woman’s journey to understand the fault lines in her marriage, her home, and her family.

When my husband comes into the bedroom we have shared for thirteen years and tel...