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WE ARE WATER
LAMB, WALLY
In middle age, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has shaken her family to its core. After twentyseven
years of marriage and three children, Anna has fallen in love with Vivica, the wealthy, cultured,
confident Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success. Anna and Viveca plan to wed
in the Oh family’s hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut, where gay marriage has recently been
legalized. But the impending wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora’s Box of
toxic secrets—dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs’ lives. We Are
Water is an intricate and layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding
and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs—nonconformist Annie; her ex-husband, Orion, a
psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and freespirited
Marissa, the youngest Oh. Set in New England and New York during the first years of the Obama
presidency, it is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the
legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 500,000
HARPER
576 PAGES
9780061941023
$26.99 HC LARGE PRINT EDITION:
OCTOBER 2013 9780062278562 ($38.99)
AUDIO DISC:
9780062282842 ($78.99)
THE WEDDING GIFT
BODDEN, MARLEN SUYAPA
When Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa’s hand in marriage, he presents her with a wedding gift:
the young slave she grew up with, Sarah. Sarah is also Allen’s daughter and Clarissa’s sister, a product
of his longtime relationship with his house slave, Emmeline. When Clarissa’s husband suspects that their
newborn son is illegitimate, Clarissa and Sarah are sent back to her parents, Cornelius and Theodora, in
shame, setting in motion a series of events that will destroy this once powerful family. Told through
alternating viewpoints of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius’ wife, The Wedding Gift is a stunning novel
that shows where the complicated and compelling bonds and relationships between women explored in
novels like The Help and The Secret Life of Bees began. It is an intimate portrait that shows where this
particular American story and dynamic all started and will leave readers breathless.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 100,000
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
320 PAGES
9781250026385
$29.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2013
AUDIO DISC:
9781427232977 ($45.99)