title: Precious: A Novel
author:  Sandra Novack 
description: &#8220;Lyrical and finely crafted . . . graceful prose . . . Novack takes the massive distance between friends, husbands and wives, and makes it her home.&#8221;&#8212;<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>&#8220;Every tragedy is inevitable in Novack&#8217;s precise, often beautiful debut.&#8221;&#8211;<i>Kirkus </i><br><br>&#8220;<b>Precious</b> has everything I want in a novel. The Kisch family&#8212;and really, all of the people who inhabit this wonderful book&#8212;seem so real that I feel I've literally met them. The everyday setting is made haunting by the heart-stopping plot and by the novel's exact and understated prose. This is a novel about an era, a world, and a neighborhood, but at it's core, it's about a family struggling to understand, and to be understood.&#8221;&#8212;Laura Moriarty, author of <i>The Rest of Her Life </i><br><br>&#8220;Exquisitely written, <b>Precious</b> is about all the vanishings in our lives&#8212;family, love, trust&#8212;and the stories we tell ourselves and each other to fill the subsequent holes left in our hearts. So haunting I haven&#8217;t been able to forget a syllable of it, <b>Precious</b> isn&#8217;t just spectacularly special&#8211;it's truly one knockout punch of a debut.&#8221;&#8212;Caroline Leavitt, author of <i>Girls in Trouble</i><br><br> &#8220;<b>Precious</b> exposes the connections of fearful hope, and weighs the cost and ultimate endurance of love. Written with compassion and grave grace, this lyrical, nuanced book establishes Sandra Novack as a significant novelist from whom we will hear much more.&#8221;&#8212;Erin McGraw, author of <i>The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard</i><br><br>&#8220;Like Natalia, just one of the unforgettable characters in <b>Precious</b>, Sandra Novack understands &#8216;the small, complicated spaces that exist between people,&#8217; but she also understands, as Natalia learns to, how people can close those spaces, how they can return home to a love they thought was lost. <b>Precious</b> is a beautifully written, moving, and wise novel from one of the best new writers to come along in years.&#8221;&#8212;David Jauss, author of <i>Black Maps</i><br><br><br>&#8220;Trouble simmers beneath the surface of a bucolic Pennsylvania town in Novack&#8217;s dramatic, elegantly rendered debut . . . Accomplished &#8230; [Novack] writes tellingly of the complex relationships among families, lovers, and friends.&#8221;&#8212;<i>Booklist</i>, starred<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
zlib_text: Precious
  
  Consequences
  
  ~ A novel ~
  
  by
  
  Tamsyn Bester
  
  Edited by: Eileen Proksch, Eileen Book Edits
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2013 by Tamsyn Bester
  
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  Tamsyn Bester. Precious Consequences. Kindle Edition
  
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