01580cam a2200289 4500 554928352 TxAuBib 20220516120000.0 210407s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021016059 9780593241226 HRD 26.00 0593241223 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib Manguso, Sarah, 1974- Very cold people [BOOK] : a novel / Sarah Manguso. 1st ed. New York : Hogarth, [2022] 191 pages ; 22 cm. "For Ruthie, the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. But this is no picturesque New England. Once "home of the bean and the cod, where Lowells speak only to Cabots, and Cabots speak only to God," by the 1980sit is an unforgiving place, awash with secrets. Very Cold People tells Ruthie's story, through her eyes: from the shame handed down through her Italian and Jewish immigrant forebears and indomitable mother, to the violences and silences endured by each ofher high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to get out of--and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive"-- Provided by publisher. 20220516. Families Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. Cities and towns Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Massachusetts Fiction. Coming of age.