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From "one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page" (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale for readers of Claire Keegan and Ian McEwan, about a 1950s housewife who decides to get into the pool in her family's apartment complex one morning and won't come out.
One unseasonably warm November day in 1957, Kathleen, a standout college tennis player, mother of two boys and wife to flagrantly handsome, aimless life insurance salesman, Virgil, decides to take a dip into the kidney-shaped swimming pool in their Delaware apartment complex instead of going to church. And she won't come out.
A consuming, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, THE MOST breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage and immerses us in the simmering tensions, sacrifices, and secrets beneath. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying that poor little doomed Soviet space dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle towards each other and towards a reckoning that will either shatter the smooth edifice of their marriage or transform it, at last, into something real.
Jessica Anthony has been a butcher in Alaska, an unlicensed masseuse in Poland, and a secretary in San Francisco. In 2017, while writing Enter the Aardvark, Anthony was working as "Bridge Guard," guarding the Maria Valeria Bridge between Sturovo, Slovakia and Esztergom, Hungary. Normally, she lives in Maine and teaches at Bates College.
One unseasonably warm November day in 1957, Kathleen, a standout college tennis player, mother of two boys and wife to flagrantly handsome, aimless life insurance salesman, Virgil, decides to take a dip into the kidney-shaped swimming pool in their Delaware apartment complex instead of going to church. And she won't come out.
A consuming, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, THE MOST breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage and immerses us in the simmering tensions, sacrifices, and secrets beneath. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying that poor little doomed Soviet space dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle towards each other and towards a reckoning that will either shatter the smooth edifice of their marriage or transform it, at last, into something real.
Jessica Anthony has been a butcher in Alaska, an unlicensed masseuse in Poland, and a secretary in San Francisco. In 2017, while writing Enter the Aardvark, Anthony was working as "Bridge Guard," guarding the Maria Valeria Bridge between Sturovo, Slovakia and Esztergom, Hungary. Normally, she lives in Maine and teaches at Bates College.