num_pages: 340
description: New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's exquisite new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. With their long necks sheer tights and taut buns Dara and Marie Durant have only known the course of a well-bred dancer. Not much changes when their parents face death in a tragic accident. As Dara and Marie take over their mother's duty of running the Durant School of Dance along with Charlie Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student the sisters perfect a fine dance circling around one another six days a week keeping the studio thriving. But when another eerily suspicious accident occurs just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker--a season of tense competition provoked anxiety and wild exhilaration--an interloper arrives and threatens the sisters' delicate balance. With its uncanny insight and writing that haunts The Turnout is Megan Abbott at the height of her game--a sharp and strange dissection of family ties and sexuality femininity and power and a sinister tale that is both alarming and irresistible.
language: English
title: The Turnout
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons