Paradise Close

by Lisa Russ Spaar

Book Overview

In 1971, orphan Marlise Schade--fourteen, anorectic, and evicted from the psychiatric hospital her trust fund can no longer support--finds herself alone in an ancestral home during a blizzard. Marlise's struggles to survive there become the focal point for a host of imperiled figures, living and dead, whose stories intersect with hers and with forces roiling the U.S. in the '70s.

Decades later, on the brink of Trump's America, sixty-something...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892556137
• ISBN13: 9780892556137
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Persea Books