The Children

The first adult novel from a YA author explores the intergenerational cost of making and consuming art through the story of a bestselling children’s author and her family. Told in alternating narratives between 1990s Vermont and present-day New York, it is a “twisting” narrative of long-held resentments, which asks whether we can ever really exorcise the ghosts of a childhood forsaken for a parent’s artistic vision.