Women and Children First: A Novel Garry Meeches Sr. A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries

children’s book author Lin Oliver

Three years ago

of people and families crossing the Pacific Ocean in search of escape

Women and Children First: A Novel Garry Meeches Sr. A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLEWhile a young womans violent death sounds like the setup for a murder mystery story, in Grabowkis deft hands, it becomes something richer and more surprising: an opportunity to capture the people left in her wake at their most honest, flawed, and insightful. Once you get into these womens heads, they will never get out of yours. Oprah Daily A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small