Surrender, Dorothy

For years, Sara Swerdlow was transported by an unfettered sense of immortality. Floating along on loving friendships & the adoration of her mother, Natalie, Sara's notion of death was entirely alien to her existence. But when a summer night's drive out for ice cream ends in tragedy, thirty-year-old Sara—"held aloft & shimmering for years"—finally lands.

Mining the intricate relationship between love & mourning, acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer explores a single, overriding question: who, finally, "owns" the excruciating loss of this young woman—her mother or her closest friends?

Depicting the aftermath of Sara's shocking death with piercing humor & shattering realism, Surrender, Dorothy is the luminously thoughtful, deeply moving exploration of what it is to be a mother & a friend, and, above all, what it takes to heal from unthinkable loss.

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Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, The Wife, The Female Persuasion, This is Your Life, Surrender, Dorothy, Sleepwalking, & Sleepwalking. She is also the author of the young adult novel, Belzhar. Wolitzer lives in New York City.

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