Nina Baldwin’s perfect life unravels after she is diagnosed with breast cancer. As she struggles to remain a good wife and mother, her husband retreats into harrowing memories of his childhood in a family of Nazi sympathizers, and her awkward, extraordinary daughter sinks further into pre-teen misery. Isolated and afraid, Nina seeks escape in places she never imagined she would.

 

Kristin Waterfield Duisberg received her undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and her master’s degree in creative writing from Boston University. She has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Boston-based Grub Street Writers’ Workshop and worked as a writer for J.P Morgan, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the University of New Hampshire. Having spent most of her life in New England, she returned recently to the seacoast New Hampshire college town where she grew up, where she lives with her husband, two children, and two exceedingly hairy golden retrievers. After is her second novel; she is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Good Patient (St. Martin’s Press).