Pretend We Are Lovely

by Noley Reid

It's the summer of 1982 in Blacksburg, Virginia--seven years after the suspicious death of a son and sibling--and the Sobel family is hungry.

Francie dresses in tennis skirts and ankle socks and weighs her grams of allotted carrots and iceberg lettuce. Her semi-estranged husband Tate prefers a packed fridge and hidden doughnuts. Daughters Enid, ten, and Vivvy, almost thirteen, are subtler versions of their parents, measuring their summer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941040667
• ISBN13: 9781941040669
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"