The Family

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A DAZZLING DEBUT SARAH WINMAN

FOR FANS OF ELENA FERRANTESTUNNING WOMANS WEEKLY

VIVID AND AUTHENTIC WASHINGTON POST

NAOMI KRUPITSKY'S WORDS SINGI COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN JOANNA GLEN

GRIPPINGA TENSE, NUANCED DEBUT PLATINUM
VIVIDLY-DRAWNBEAUTIFUL. I LOVED IT! CHRISTINA SWEENEY-BAIRD

*A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick*
*Book of the Month club*
*One ofCosmopolitans Best Historical Fiction of 2021*
*One ofPopSugars Best New Books of 2021*

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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 Antonias father drives a whisper-thin wedge between the girls as they grow into women, wives, mothers, and leaders. And as they push against the boundaries of societys 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 its too late.

For fans of Elena Ferrante and Maggie OFarrell, The Family introduces a stunning new voice in literary fiction.

A tense, engrossing novel Booklist, starred review

A riveting story powerful in its realism Diane Chamberlain, author ofBig Lies in a Small Town

A tremendous debut Fiona Davis, author ofThe Lions of Fifth Avenue

Loyalty, love, loss and redemption take this well told tale to a searing conclusion Adriana Trigiani

Krupitsky beautifully captures Sofia and Antonias day-to-day lives under never-ending tension Publishers Weekly

Fast-paced and readable Kirkus Reviews

A nuanced evocation of lifelong female friendship in all its shifting, messy, gorgeous complexity Whitney Scharer, author ofThe Age of Light

Lyrical, gripping, and richly evocative Christina Schwarz, author ofDrowning RuthandBonnie

Sweeping and consuming Susie Orman Schnall, author ofWe Came Here to Shine

A powerful story of friendship and loyaltyexquisite Jennifer S. Brown, author ofModern Girls

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I found this tense, nuanced debut to be gripping Platinum magazine, *Book of the Month*

Power struggles, secrets and friendships abound in this powerful novel Woman

Author Bio

Naomi Krupitsky attended NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and is an assistant editor at the Vida Review and a bookseller at Black Bird Bookstore. She lives in San Francisco but calls many places home. The Family is her first novel.