Speak Now

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Having been stalked for almost twenty years by her high school lover, Clara Sverdlow is a recently sober alcoholic in her mid thirties who has found happiness in a tenuous marriage. Yet the past lurks over the couple, always encroaching on their conjugal bliss. Clara's father was a political prisoner in Auschwitz and his guilt and horror form some of Clara's psychological make-up. Husband Mark has his own demons too - a brother dead from a drug overdose. Together they must address the past if they are to cling to the fragile happiness they have found.

Kaylie Jones is the author of five novels, including Celeste Ascending and A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, which was released as a Merchant Ivory film in 1998. Jones's novels have been translated into many languages including German, French, Japanese, and Italian. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

"Kaylie Jones, one of America's finest young novelists, has written a tale that exhibits all her considerable strengths -- a dark and powerful story, a compelling hero, and language clear and deep as a New England pond. "Speak Now" is a rich and splendid book." -- Roger Rosenblatt