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by Jessica Anthony

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Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. One of the Washington Post's Best Books of 2024​.

From "one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page" (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who goes for a swim in her apartment complex's swimming pool one morning...and won't come out.

It's November 3, 1957. As Sputnik 2 launches into space, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day. Virgil Beckett, an insurance salesman, isn't particularly happy in his job but he fulfills the role. Kathleen Beckett, once a promising tennis champion with a key shot up her sleeve, is now a mother and homemaker. On this unseasonably warm Sunday, Kathleen decides not to join her family at church. Instead, she unearths her old, red bathing suit and descends into the deserted swimming pool of their apartment complex in Newark, Delaware. And then she won't come out.

A riveting, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, The Most masterly breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage, immersing us in the unspoken truth beneath.

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  • Title The Most
  • Author Jessica Anthony
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company
  • Publication date 2024-07-30
  • ISBN 9780316576376 / 0316576379
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.56 x 0.47 in (20.98 x 14.12 x 1.19 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Housewives
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booklist, 06/20/2024, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2024, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/27/2024, Page 0

About the author

Jessica Anthony is the author of three books of fiction, most recently the novel Enter the Aardvark, a finalist for the New England Book Award in Fiction. A recipient of the Creative Capital Award in Literature, Anthony wrote The Most while guarding the Mria Valria Bridge in Strovo, Slovakia. She lives in Portland, Maine.
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