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***  NEW YORK TIMES  100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** From the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page” —Ann Patchett), Act of God (“A feat of literary magic”— Booklist ) and, with Amy Hempel, The Hand That Feeds You (“An unnerving, elegant page-turner” — Vanity Fair ), a spare, masterful novel. The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial, set in a courthouse more Soviet than Le Corbusier; a rich, white teenage girl—a twin—on trial for murdering her toddler brother. Two of the jurors: Hannah, a married fifty-two-year-old former Rolling Stone and Interview Magazine photographer of rock stars and socialites (she began to photograph animals when she realized she saw people “as a species”), and Graham, a forty-one-year-old anatomy professor. Both are sequestered (she, juror C-2; he, F-17) along with the other jurors at the Econo Lodge off I-75. As the shocking and numbing details of the crime are revealed during a string of days and courtroom hours, and the nights play out in a series of court-financed meals at Outback Steak House (the state isn’t paying for their drinks) and Red Lobster, Hannah

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Author

Jill Ciment

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525565376

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (1,697 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14