Save Yourself
Published on 7. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-78239-323-8 (ISBN)
Description
When Patrick Cusimano's alcoholic father kills a child in a hit-and-run, Patrick is faced with a terrible choice: turn his father in - destroying what's left of his family in the process - or keep quiet. But can Patrick's brother, Mike, live with the choice that was made that night?
Layla Elshere was once a poster girl for purity. But when her evangelical father forces her to spearhead a campaign against her school, it compels her to question everything she's ever known. Now Layla is doing all she can to obliterate her past. Verna loves her older sister Layla, but as events begin to spiral, Verna must make the hardest choice: save the person she loves most in the world - or save herself.
Save Yourself is a stunning novel about power struggles and divided loyalties, and the way in which one terrible decision can alter the whole course of your life.
Layla Elshere was once a poster girl for purity. But when her evangelical father forces her to spearhead a campaign against her school, it compels her to question everything she's ever known. Now Layla is doing all she can to obliterate her past. Verna loves her older sister Layla, but as events begin to spiral, Verna must make the hardest choice: save the person she loves most in the world - or save herself.
Save Yourself is a stunning novel about power struggles and divided loyalties, and the way in which one terrible decision can alter the whole course of your life.
Reviews / Votes
You'll find yourselves breathless, shaken, moved -- Megan Abbott Kelly Braffet is the real deal. Save Yourself is an electrifying thriller with honest-to-God people at its core -- Dennis Lehane Astonishing. Save Yourself goes deep into the hidden and shameful parts of grief, love, and anger, and the reader emerges shaken and grateful on the far end...Braffet is a writer in full command of her many, many talents -- Emma Straub The sweet spot where literary quality mingles freely with crackerjack storytelling... Braffet expertly captures the suffocating confines of small-town life and the desperation of its outliers, with prose that simmers and thrums * Salon.com * Braffet uses graceful prose, astute dialogue and vivid characters to carry the plot to an unexpected and believable finale * Publishers Weekly * Perceptive, nervy, with broad cross-genre appeal * Booklist *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Atlantic Books
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78239-323-8 (9781782393238)
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Kelly Braffet was born in Long Beach, California, in 1976, and has lived in Arizona, rural Pennsylvania and Oxford, England. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, and has taught novel writing at the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, the writer Owen King.