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The guest book

Blake, Sarah 1960- (author.).

Summary: "A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph. The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that "used to run the world." And when the novel begins in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton appear to have everything--perfect children, good looks, a love everyone envies. But after a tragedy befalls them, Ogden tries to bring Kitty back to life by purchasing an island in Maine. That island, and its house, come to define and burnish the Milton family, year after year after year. And it is there that Kitty issues a refusal that will haunt her till the day she dies. In 1959 a young Jewish man, Len Levy, will get a job in Ogden's bank and earn the admiration of Ogden and one of his daughters, but the scorn of everyone else. Len's best friend, Reg Pauling, has always been the only black man in the room--at Harvard, at work, and finally at the Miltons' island in Maine. An island that, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this last generation doesn't have the money to keep. When Kitty's granddaughter hears that she and her cousins might be forced to sell it, and when her husband brings back disturbing evidence about her grandfather's past, she realizes she is on the verge of finally understanding the silences that seemed to hover just below the surface of her family all her life. An ambitious novel that weaves the American past with its present, Sarah Blake's The Guest Book looks at the racism and power that has been systemically embedded in the U.S. for generations."--

Record details

  • ISBN: 1250110254 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781250110251 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 486 pages ; 25 cm
    print
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Flatiron Books, 2019.
  • Badges:
    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
Subject: Family secrets Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 71 of 73 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 73 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Abington Community Library FICTION BLAKE (Text) 50687011641860 Adult Fiction Checked Out 04/05/2024
Albright Memorial Library FICTION BLAKE (Text) 50686015496321 Storage Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION BLAKE (Text) 50686015504413 Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F BLA (Text) 33240004870328 Adult Fiction Available -
Ashland Public Library FIC BLA (Text) 30399000340390 Fiction Available -
Bangor Public Library F BLA (Text) 75011000306750 Adult Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library FICTION Bla (Text) 85131001679548 CACM Fiction Available -
Carroll Valley Library HIST FIC BLAKE SARAH (Text) 35740635466493 Historical Fiction Available -
Carrolltown Public Library FIC BLA (Text) 31814200530241 CARM Fiction Available -
Coplay Public Library FIC BLA (Text) 31961000239539 Adult Fiction Available -


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