The Paper Palace
One day at a Cape Cod summer house, one impossible choice, and fifty years of what the family never said.
The novel covers a single day at a Cape Cod summer house, and fifty years of the family that returns to it. That morning Elle has to choose between her husband and the childhood friend she has just slept with, and the choice is inseparable from what happened to her there as a girl. Heller writes the pond, the woods and the New England summer beautifully, and the buried trauma is handled with real care rather than as a device.
Recommended by 1 Person
Reese Witherspoon
I was totally immersed in the fast-paced narrative that seamlessly wove together past & present.
Book Club · July 2021
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