num_pages: 304
description: Who is Mrs. March?A twenty-first-century Highsmith Virginia Feito conjures the unforgettable Mrs. March an Upper East Side housewife whose life is shattered by her husbands latest novel.In this astonishing debut the venerable but gossipy New York literary scene is twisted into a claustrophobic fun house of paranoia horror and wickedly dark humor. George Marchs latest novel is a smash. No one is prouder than Mrs. March his doting wife. But one morning the shopkeeper of her favorite patisserie suggests that his protagonist is based on Mrs. March herself: But . . . isn't she . . . Mrs. March leaned in and in almost a whisper said a whore? Clutching her ostrich-leather pocketbook she flees that one casual remark destroying her belief that she knew everything about her husbandas well as herself. Suddenly Mrs. March is hurled into a harrowing journey that builds to near psychosis one that begins merely within the pages of a book but may uncover both a killer and the long-buried secrets of her past.
language: English
title: Mrs. March
publisher: Liveright