Description Those Who Knew speaks with uncommon prescience to the swirl around us.
Those Who Knew confirms Novey\'s place as an essential new voice in American fiction..
Why didn\'t Lena speak up then, and will her family\'s support of the former regime still impact her credibility? What if her hunch about this young woman\'s death is wrong? What follows is a riveting exploration of the cost of staying silent and the mixed rewards of speaking up in a profoundly divided country.
When the young woman ends up dead, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship.
S.-supported regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who\'s been introducing him at rallies.
On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a U.
The universe she has created is imagined, and all too real.--Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies From the award-winning author of Ways to Disappear, a taut, timely novel about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down.
Novey writes, with acuity and depth, about questions of silence, power, and complicity.
Description Those Who Knew speaks with uncommon prescience to the swirl around us
