The New York Times runaway bestseller, a powerful tale about three generations of a privileged New York family.
Sarah Blake lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, the poet Josh Weiner, and their two sons.
Thought-provoking and propulsive...Welcome to old money, new
heartbreak and big secrets
*New York Times Book Review*
I was totally swept away by this beautiful, engrossing, ultimately
heartbreaking family saga
*Rachel Rhys, author of 'Dangerous Crossing' and 'Fatal
Inheritance'*
Sarah Blake's powerful, beautifully written story portrays a
couple's secret choices that come to haunt succeeding generations.
The Guest Book is richly atmospheric and morally compelling in a
way that stirs the mind long after the last page.
*Nancy Horan, author of 'Loving Frank' and 'Under the Wide and
Starry Sky'*
I loved The Guest Book. Sarah Blake has managed the extraordinary
feat of writing both an intimate family saga and an ambitious
excavation of the subterranean currents of race, class, and power
that have shaped America. This is a vivid, transporting novel,
written by a master conjuror of time and place.
*Jessica Shattuck, New York Times bestselling author of 'The Women
in the Castle'*
The Guest Book is not only an exploration of the past, but a
prophecy of the future. It illuminates a lost world with a
brilliance that is neither nostalgic nor sentimental as it leads
its characters, as well as the reader, to new and disturbing
discoveries about prejudice and privilege. Sarah Blake's
understanding of private life at a certain time in America and
within a certain class gives us an incisive history of manners and
morals, with the understanding that the survival of the spirit, no
matter the time, depends upon endurance, tolerance, and solitary
grief.
*Susanna Moore, author of 'The Life of Objects'*
Sarah Blake is such a beautiful writer she can make any world
shimmer, but The Guest Book is particularly fascinating. An
intergenerational exploration of memory, identity, love, and family
loyalty, of what it costs to inherit a name, a place, and a
difficult alignment with history. Powerful and provocative
storytelling.
*Paula McLain, bestselling author of 'The Paris Wife'*
Epic and sweeping, without ever leaving behind the personal and
profound, The Guest Book is a reminder of what novels do better
than anything else. Without losing their specificity, three
generations of Milton women reveal something about every family,
the secrets and unspoken truths that color everything that happens
to us. This is a book you will be dying to talk to someone
about
*Arthur Phillips, author of 'The Tragedy of Arthur' and
'Prague'*
Beautifully crafted....The Milton family history, rife with secrets
and moral failings, including a deep-seated bigotry, is a timely
tale of America itself. An enveloping and moving page-turner
*People, Book of the Week*
The story of the Miltons engages not just with history and
politics, but with the poetry of the physical world. This novel
sets out to be more than a juicy family saga?it aims to depict the
moral evolution of a part of American society. Its convincing
characters and muscular narrative succeed on both counts
*Kirkus Reviews, starred review*
This powerful family saga...is potent and mesmerizing
*Publishers Weekly*
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