Winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
One of USA Today's Best Books of 2020
One of Good Morning America's 25 Novels You'll Want to Read This Summer
One of Parade's 26 Best Books to Read This Summer
An Amazon Best Book of July 2020
Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house to vacationers and move into the apartment above their bakery, where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence. Now, Florence has returned from college, and Fannie, pregnant again after recently losing a baby, is on bedrest. After Joseph insists they take in a mysterious young woman he helped emigrate from Nazi Germany, the apartment is bursting at the seams. When tragedy strikes, Esther pulls the family into a web of lies, bringing long- buried tensions to the surface that reveal how quickly protecting those we love can turn into betrayal.