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The Family
- A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel)
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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The Family
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Publisher's Summary
The Instant New York Times Best Seller
A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club pick
A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of 20th-century Brooklyn itself.
Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.
Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they live in the shadow of their fathers’ unspoken community: the Family. Sunday dinners gather them each week to feast, discuss business, and renew the intoxicating bond borne of blood and love.
But the disappearance of Antonia’s father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. Their hearts expand in tandem with Red Hook and Brooklyn around them, as they push against the boundaries of society’s expectations and fight to preserve their complex but life-sustaining friendship. One fateful night, their loyalty to each other and the Family will be tested. Only one of them can pull the trigger before it’s too late.
What the critics say
A TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick
A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick
A Book of the Month Pick
One of Parade’s Best Fall Books of 2021
One of Cosmopolitan’s Best Historical Fiction of 2021
One of Good Morning America’s 15 Books to Curl Up with This November
One of PopSugar’s Best New Books of November 2021
One of Bustle’s Best Books of November 2021
One of Real Simple’s Best Books of 2021
One of Katie Couric Media’s Best Books About Female Friendship
“Vivid, authentic and filled with the unexpected… Once you read this novel of blood and love, promises and betrayal, you may never look at family in quite the same way again.” —Washington Post
“Krupitsky’s immersive debut is an intoxicating hybrid of The Sopranos and the novels of Elena Ferrante…The writing is downright dazzling….” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Mario Puzo meets Elena Ferrante in Krupitsky’s dynamite debut novel...Fans of Adriana Trigiani and Lynda Cohen Loigman will inhale this tense, engrossing novel about family ties, women’s friendships, and the treacherous complications of loyalty.” —Booklist, starred review