Field Guide to the North American Family

<p><b>From the author of the <i>New York Times </i>bestseller <i>City on Fire</i></b><br><b>A Granta Best of Young American Novelist 2017 </b><br><b>‘A young author of boundless and unflagging talents’ <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br><br><i>We can all agree on this much, Marnie thought: nobody saw the Hungate divorce coming. In the privacy of her own mind, she saw them as the last of a dying breed, the Great American Family.</i><br><br>Two families – the Hungates and the Harrisons – live side by side in Long Island, New York. They lead charmed lives: good jobs in the city, weekends by the pool, cheerleading practice after school and backyard barbecues in the summer. But within these lives lie hundreds of little deceptions.<br><br>Told through a mix of photographs and words, this is a dazzlingly inventive depiction of two families falling apart and coming together and the thousand different truths of the American Dream.</p>