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Invisible Woman

Invisible Woman

Katia Lief
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Other people kill their husbands. Not her. "Absolutely a novel of its time–& a novel of women's stories across time.”—Kirkus (starred review) 

In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, & a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman’s decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, & his ascending career at a premier television network provided a safety net. 

Now they’ve recently transplanted to Brooklyn, so that Paul can launch a major East Coast production studio, when a scandal rocks the film industry & forces Joni to revisit a secret from long ago involving her friend Val. Joni is adamant that the time has come to tell the story, but Val & Paul are reluctant, for different reasons. 

As the marriage frays & the friends spar about whether to speak up, Joni’s struggles with isolation in a new city, & old resentments about the sacrifices she made on her family’s behalf start to boil over. She takes solace, of sorts, in the novels of Patricia Highsmith—particularly the masterpiece Strangers on a Train, with its duplicitous characters and their murderous impulses—until the lines between reality & fantasy become blurred. 

Invisible Woman is at once a literary thriller about the lies we tell each other (and ourselves), & a powerful psychological examination of the complexities of friendship, marriage, & motherhood.

Year:
2024
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Grove Press
Language:
english
Pages:
1120
ISBN 10:
0802161413
ISBN 13:
9780802161413
File:
EPUB, 880 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2024
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