Home of the American Circus

"After an emergency leaves her short on rent, thirty-year-old Freya Arnalds bails on her lackluster life as [a] bartender in Maine and returns to her suburban hometown of Somers, New York, to live in the house she inherited from her estranged parents. Despite attempts to lay low, Freya encounters childhood friends, familial enemies, and old flames--as well as her fifteen-year-old niece Aubrey, who is secretly living in the derelict home. As they reconnect, Freya and Aubrey lean on each other, working to restore the house and come to terms with the devastating events that pulled them apart years ago"--

About the author

Allison Larkin is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The People We Keep, Stay, Why Can’t I Be You, and Swimming for Sunlight. Her short fiction has been published in the Summerset Review and Slice, and nonfiction in Author in Progress, a how-to guide from Writer’s Digest Books, and the dog anthology I’m Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Jeremy, and their rescue dog, Roxy.

Product details

• Authors: Allison Larkin, Allison Larkin
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781668008416
• ISBN: 978-1-6680-0841-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / General, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Contemporary lifestyle fiction