Burning Down the House

by Jane Mendelsohn

Book Overview

"It begins with a child . . ." So opens Jane Mendelsohn's powerful, riveting new novel. A classic family tale colliding with the twenty-first century, Burning Down the House tells the story of two girls. Neva, from the mountains of Russia, was sold into the sex trade at the age of ten; Poppy is the adopted daughter of Steve, the patriarch of a successful New York real estate clan, the Zanes. She is his sister's orphaned child. One of these young women...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101875453
• ISBN13: 9781101875452
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 9.4"