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“Gripping” and “a bold and remorseless debut…” Halperin “expertly weaves scenes from the past into the present to build a more complete world. She also dives deep into the confused, reckless thoughts that can permeate adolescence. The characters are unflinchingly honest as they explore their emotions in a manner that is both refreshing and haunting. The novel is similarly unapologetic as it tackles difficult questions about abusive relationships, toxic secrets, and romantic and familial betrayals.”
----Kirkus review
“In this compelling debut that examines overt violence and buried pain in the lives of a mother and her two adult daughters, Hanna Halperin explores the injuries that can and cannot be healed, the wrongs that can and cannot be forgiven, and the times when love is and isn’t enough. SOMETHING WILD is an unflinching look at what happens when closed doors and hearts are at last flung open.”
----Judith Claire Mitchell author of A REUNION OF GHOSTS
“SOMETHING WILD is the story of the fierce love and secrets that exist between sisters Tanya and Nessa and their mother, Lorraine—but I was just as impressed by the radical interiority that Hanna Halperin grants her characters. The women of this novel are painted with startling honesty and insight: they think the unthinkable, do the unfixable, and their raw vulnerability is thrilling, for it acknowledges our own. In this emotionally astute debut, Hanna Halperin shows herself to be a writer who is as compassionate as she is unafraid of darkness and taboo. SOMETHING WILD is tender, fearless, and savagely alive.”
----Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of THE IMMORTALISTS
“SOMETHING WILD is a gripping portrait of a family in all its shattered complexity. Hanna Halperin is compassionate and wise writer, and in this searing debut she peels back the shiny exterior of the Bloom family and reveals what is true for us all: that secrets are psychic poison, and they transform us when they come tumbling out."
----Dani Shapiro, author of INHERITANCE
“In Something Wild, Hanna Halperin takes a startling look at intimacy in its kaleidoscopic range—its capacity to make and undo us, to deliver us to danger and lead us out again. The grace of Halperin’s careful eye makes it impossible to diminish or look away from the women at the center of this book, even when their lives fail to give them the mercy we would want for them. This is a brave and exquisite debut.”
---- Danielle Evans, author of THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS
“Something Wild is unflinching and intimate, brutal and tender. This is a novel written with guts and heart, a masterful portrayal of trauma, girlhood, familial violence and the reverberations of harm. Halperin’s characters are full of humanity even as they fail one another, even as they face the unspeakable. What a generous, bold debut. I loved it. I can’t get it out of my head.”
---- Kate Russell, author of MY DARK VANESSA
“A profound and intimate novel…Halperin writes the Bloom family with rich specificity, creating characters alive with vulnerability, beauty and rage, all the while telling a greater story of how one generation of women can inherit trauma from the last. An unforgettable tale that I’ll be grappling with for years to come.”
---- Lucy Tan, author of WHAT WE WERE PROMISED