The Family: A Read with Jenna Pick
Read by
Marin Ireland
Release:
11/02/2021
Runtime:
9h 54m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“An intoxicating hybrid of The Sopranos an intoxicating hybrid of The Sopranos and the novels of Elena Ferrante…The writing is downright dazzling.”
San Francisco Chronicle
A New York Times bestseller
A Read with Jenna Today Show Pick
A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
A Cosmopolitan Best Book of 2021
A Parade Magazine Pick for Fall
A Good Morning America Selection for November
A PopSugar Pick of the Month
A Bustle Pick of the Month
The Instant New York Times bestseller
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 twentieth-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.
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 twentieth-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.
Release:
2021-11-02
Runtime:
9h 54m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593451526
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Praise