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What we've lost is nothing a novel

Living on a suburban cul-de-sac positioned between extremely wealthy and impoverished neighbors, high school student Mary Elizabeth McPherson witnesses acts of violence and compassion that reverberate throughout her community in the wake of a string of burglaries.

Main Author: Snyder, Rachel Louise (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2014.
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Suburban life > Fiction.
Burglary > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Oak Park (Ill.) > Fiction.
Summary: Living on a suburban cul-de-sac positioned between extremely wealthy and impoverished neighbors, high school student Mary Elizabeth McPherson witnesses acts of violence and compassion that reverberate throughout her community in the wake of a string of burglaries.
Physical Description: xi, 302 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781476725178
1476725179
Author Notes: Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of the memoir Women We Buried, Women We Burned ; the novel What We've Lost Is Nothing ; Fugitive Denim ; and No Visible Bruises , a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the Hillman Prize, and the Helen Bernstein Book Award, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Kirkus Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker , The New York Times , Slate , and elsewhere. A 2020-2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Snyder lives in Washington, DC, where she is an associate professor of creative writing and journalism at American University.

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