Fiction. Literature. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER �?� NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND THE HUFFINGTON POST �?� Features an exclusive conversation between Julia Pierpont and Lena Dunham
For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost.
Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn�??t mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack�??s secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it�??s delivered into the wrong hands: her children�??s.
With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart into separate orbits, leaving New York in an attempt to regain their bearings, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the allure of adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven-year-old Kay wanders precariously into a grown-up world she can�??t possibly understand. Writing with extraordinary precision, humor, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family life�??their brittleness, and their resilience.
Praise for Among the Ten Thousand Things
�??A luscious, smart summer novel . . . by a blazingly talented young author.�?��??The New York Times Book Review
 
�??This book is one of the funniest, and most emotionally honest, I�??ve read in a long time.�?��??Jonathan Safran Foer
 
�??Obsessively compelling . . . emotionally sophisticated . . . Among the Ten Thousand Things rises above [other novels] for its imagined structure, sentence-by-sentence punch, and pure humanity.�?��??Vanity Fair
 
�??Gripping . . . Pierpont brings this family of four to life in sharply observed detail. . . . An acute observer of social comedy, Ms. Pierpont has a keen eye for the absurd.�?��??The Wall Street Journal
 
�??Pierpont�??s language is heart-stopping. . . . Between Pierpont�??s literary finesse and her captivating characters, [Among the Ten Thousand Things] reads like a page-turner.�?��??Entertainment Weekly (grade: A)
 
�??A twisty, gripping story�??that packs an emotional wallop.�?��??O: The Oprah Magazine
�??There are going to be as many ingenious twists and turns in this literary novel as there are in a top-notch work of suspense like Gone Girl.�?��??Maureen Corrigan, NPR�??s Fresh Air
�??Tender, delicately perceptive . . . Pierpont�??s voice is wry and confident, and she is a fine anthropologist of New York life.�?��??The Washington Post
�??Pierpont displays a precocious gift for language and observation. . . . She captures the minutiae of lon