Magnetism

Mother and daughter Caroline and Erica are best of friends and worst of enemies.



Set in the American mid- and south-west, their story unfolds over more than 50 years against a backdrop of sweeping social change. Feisty and argumentative, they roll with the punches, surviving car crashes, awkward family gatherings, relationship disasters--and plastic surgery.



Sharply observed and darkly comic, Magnetism exposes the stigma and experience of mental health problems, infertility, homosexuality and single parenthood, and notches a riveting new path through this most fundamental of family ties.



This is an extraordinary debut--brutally honest, gloriously wry and unexpectedly uplifting.