In her bestselling story collection, "Birds of America," Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss. Now, Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" (The New York Times) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.

Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed.

"An indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9/11.... Moore has written her most powerful book yet." --The New York Times