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Acts of Love : A Novel

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From the acclaimed author of Waiting to Surface comes a ā€œsearingā€ (Publishers Weekly) and emotionally powerful novel about a family and a community torn apart after an unthinkable tragedy.

In a suburb near Albany, New York, Ted and Ann Waring are waiting for divorce papers. Ted is hoping for reconciliation, but when he returns from a hunting trip with the coupleā€™s two adolescent daughters, he loses his temper one last time, shooting and killing Ann in their living room. He claims it was an accident, but his thirteen-year-old daughter, Juliaā€”the only witnessā€”is sure it was murder. The younger girl, Ali, doesnā€™t know which way to turn. And when Julia testifies against her father, she sets into motion a struggle that pits family, friends, and townspeople against one another.

As the many layers of truth unfold in this ā€œchilling meditation on the so-called acts of loveā€ (The New York Times) Emily Listfieldā€™s lean and subtle prose reveals the ways in which the emotions and evasions of the past reverberate uncontrollably into the present.