You Are One of Them
A Novel About Secrets, Betrayal, and the Friend Who Got Away
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Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones are best friends in an upscale part of Washington, D.C., in the politically charged 1980s. Sarah is the shy, wary product of an unhappy home: her father abandoned the family to return to his native England; her agoraphobic mother is obsessed with fears of nuclear war. Jenny is an all-American girl who has seemingly perfect parents. With Cold War rhetoric reaching a fever pitch in 1982, the ten-year-old girls write letters to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov asking for peace. But only Jenny's letter receives a response, and Sarah is left behind when her friend accepts the Kremlin's invitation to visit the USSR and becomes an international media sensation. The girls' icy relationship still hasn't thawed when Jenny and her parents die tragically in a plane crash in 1985. Ten years later, Sarah is about to graduate from college when she receives a mysterious letter from Moscow suggesting that Jenny's death might have been a hoax. She sets off to the former Soviet Union in search of the truth, but the more she delves into her personal Cold War history, the harder it is to separate facts from propaganda. "You Are One of Them" is a taut, moving debut about the ways in which we define ourselves against others and the secrets we keep from those who are closest to us. In her insightful forensic of a mourned friendship, Holt illuminates the long lasting sting of abandonment and the measures we take to bring back those we have lost.
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You Are One of Them, Elliott Holt
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- You Are One of Them
- Subtitle
- A Novel About Secrets, Betrayal, and the Friend Who Got Away
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Elliott Holt
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0143125443
- ISBN13
- 9780143125440
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- Historical Themes, Psychological Topics, Mystery Novels, Art, Love, Sports, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, USA, Relationships, World War II, Wars, Food, American Literature, Stories, Death, England, Realistic Fiction, Feminism, Russia, Coming Of Age, Leadership, Marriage, Inspiration, Espionage, Lyric, 21st Century, Dark, Satire, International Relations, Crime Rate, Teachers, Alternate History, Cold War, Biographical novels, Sadness, Tea, Professional Success, Mothers and Sons, Genetic Engineering
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- Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones are best friends in an upscale part of Washington, D.C., in the politically charged 1980s. Sarah is the shy, wary product of an unhappy home: her father abandoned the family to return to his native England; her agoraphobic mother is obsessed with fears of nuclear war. Jenny is an all-American girl who has seemingly perfect parents. With Cold War rhetoric reaching a fever pitch in 1982, the ten-year-old girls write letters to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov asking for peace. But only Jenny's letter receives a response, and Sarah is left behind when her friend accepts the Kremlin's invitation to visit the USSR and becomes an international media sensation. The girls' icy relationship still hasn't thawed when Jenny and her parents die tragically in a plane crash in 1985. Ten years later, Sarah is about to graduate from college when she receives a mysterious letter from Moscow suggesting that Jenny's death might have been a hoax. She sets off to the former Soviet Union in search of the truth, but the more she delves into her personal Cold War history, the harder it is to separate facts from propaganda. "You Are One of Them" is a taut, moving debut about the ways in which we define ourselves against others and the secrets we keep from those who are closest to us. In her insightful forensic of a mourned friendship, Holt illuminates the long lasting sting of abandonment and the measures we take to bring back those we have lost.