Elizabeth Strout\'s Anything is Possible meets Celeste Ng\'s Everything I Never Told You in Alina Grabowski\'s Women and Children First , a breathtaking literary debut that unwinds the private lives of ten Women as they confront tragedy in a small Massachusetts town.
Touching on womanhood, class, and sexuality, ambition, disappointment, and tragedy, this novel is a stunning rendering of love and loss, and a bracing lesson from a phenomenal new literary talent that no one walks this earth alone..
Told through the eyes of ten local women, Grabowski\'s Women and Children First is an exquisite portrait of grief and a powerful reminder of life\'s interconnectedness.
Some are left to pick up the pieces, while others turn their backs, and all the while, a truth about that dreadful night begins to emerge.
As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around this tragedy become a lightning rod: blame is cast, secrets are buried deeper.
So, when a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community of Nashquitten is shaken.
Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town\'s industries for generations.
Elizabeth Strout\'s Anything is Possible meets Celeste Ng\'s Everything I Never Told You in Alina Grabowski\'s Women and Children First , a breathtaking literary debut that unwinds the private lives of ten Women as they confront tragedy in a small Massachusetts town
