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02633aam a22004218i 4500 001 8435575A387D11EC850BB56740ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211029010013 008 210730s2021 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021036606 020 $a 0802158889 020 $a 9780802158888 035 $a (OCoLC)1241730065 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IOD $d IA4 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3602.A5956 $b P47 2021 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Ball, Bethany, $e author. 245 14 $a The pessimists : $b a novel / $c Bethany Ball. 250 $a First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Grove Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 291 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Welcome to small town Connecticut, a place whose inhabitants seem to have it all-the status, the homes, the money, and the ennui. There's Tripp and Virginia, beloved hosts whom the community idolizes, and whose basement hides among other things a secret stash of guns and a drastic plan to survive the end times. There's Gunter and Rachel, recent transplants who left New York City to raise their children, only to feel imprisoned by the banality of suburbia. And Richard and Margot, community veterans whose extramarital affairs and battles with mental health are disguised by their enviably polished veneers and perfect children. At the center of it all is the Petra School, the most coveted of all the private schools in the state, a supposed utopia of mindfulness and creativity, with a history as murky and suspect as our character's inner worlds. With deep wit and delicious incisiveness, in The Pessimists, Bethany Ball peels back the veneer of upper class white suburbia to expose the destructive consequences of unchecked privilege and moral apathy in a world that is rapidly evolving without them. This is a superbly drawn portrait of a community, and its couples, torn apart by unmet desires, duplicity, hypocrisy, and dangerous levels of discontent"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Marriage $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Private schools $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Suburbs $z Connecticut $v Fiction. 941 $a 7 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221101012630.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728015046.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630014012.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20211215032646.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20211203010520.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20211130012433.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211105010046.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8435575A387D11EC850BB56740ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search