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All the Secrets of the World Hardcover - 2022

by Steve Almond

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"A breathtaking success . . . dazzling." --San Francisco Chronicle

"[A] rollicking, wide-ranging, unpredictable novel--part crime story, part coming-of-age, part satire, part deadly serious." --Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer finalist for The Great Believers

Who pays for the secrets we keep? For the lies we tell ourselves?

Lorena Saenz has just been paired with Jenny Stallworth for a school project by a teacher hoping to unite two girls from starkly different backgrounds. Jenny is pretty and popular, and Lorena is quickly drawn into the family's picture-perfect suburban lifestyle. Jenny's mother, Rosemary, is glamorous, but needy--she treats Lorena like a friend, if only to break up the monotony of lonely afternoons. Jenny's father, Marcus, spends his days teaching and his nights wandering the desert, absorbed in his research on the scorpions of Death Valley. Outwardly, they are the perfect family, poised for success in 1981 Sacramento at the dawn of a glorious American decade. Lorena finds her access intoxicating and alluring, a far cry from her life in the small apartment she shares with her single mother.

But the veneer is shattered when Marcus disappears. The prime suspect: Lorena's troubled older brother, Tony.

To uncover the truth, Lorena must embark on an unforgiving odyssey into the desert, into the secrets and lies of the Stallworth family, and the dark heart of America's criminal justice system. A shape-shifting social novel, All the Secrets of the World is a propulsive tour de force from a writer at the height of his powers.


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  • Title All the Secrets of the World
  • Author Steve Almond
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Zando
  • Date 2022-05-03
  • ISBN 9781638930020 / 1638930023
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Social classes, Teenage girls - California
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2022, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/13/2021, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 05/06/2022, Page 0

About the author

Steve Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. He teaches Creative Writing at the Neiman Fellowship at Harvard and Wesleyan, as well as Hugo House, Grub Street, and numerous literary conferences. His essays and reviews have been widely published in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Poets & Writers, Tin House, and Ploughshares. His journalism has received numerous awards including the top national prize for feature writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. His short stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, Best American Mysteries, Best American Erotica, and The Pushcart Prize. He serves as a literary correspondent for WBUR and appears on numerous podcasts. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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