02877cam a2200421 i 4500 1684777864 TxAuBib 20250131120000.0 231005s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023043204 9780802164339 PAP 17.00 0802164331 PAP 17.00 9780802161406 hardcover $27.00 0802161405 hardcover $27.00 (OCoLC)1402027523 TxAuBib rda Lief, Katia, author. Invisible woman [BOOK] : a novel / Katia Lief. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024. x, 260 pages ; 26 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending career at a premier television network provided a safety net. Now they've recently transplanted to Brooklyn so that Paul can launch a major East Coast production studio, when a scandal rocks the film industry and forces Joni to revisit a secret from long ago involving her friend Val. Joni is adamant that the time has come to tell the story, but Val and Paul are reluctant, for different reasons. As the marriage frays and the friends spar about whether to speak up, Joni's struggles with isolation in a new city, and old resentments about the sacrifices she made on her family's behalf start to boil over. She takes solace, of sorts, in the novels of Patricia Highsmith - particularly the masterpiece Strangers on a Train, with its duplicitous characters and their murderous impulses-until the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred. Invisible Woman is at once a literary thriller about the lies we tell each other (and ourselves), and a powerful psychological examination of friendship, marriage, and motherhood". 20250131. Best friends Fiction. Marriage Fiction. Motherhood Fiction. Motion picture industry Fiction. Sexual harassment of women Fiction. Women Crimes against Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction.