The Family: A Read with Jenna Pick (a Novel)

by Naomi Krupitsky

Book Overview

The Instant New York Times bestseller
A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick

A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself.

Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.

Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525541993
• ISBN13: 9780525541998
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Not too shabby for a debut author

Checks off a couple of appealing boxes for me: historical fiction, takes place in Brooklyn, friendship, family, and organized crime. But you also get love, regret, disillusionment, anger and pain. It's a killer combo that is only made better by Naomi's brilliant writing. The way she develops the two main characters and their complex and ever-evolving but enduring friendship is nothing short of masterful. While not action packed, and even at times a little slow, it is a deep (sometimes dark) character-driven novel.