Triangles

by Ellen Hopkins

Genres: Literary Fiction; Women's Fiction

Synopsis

Number one New York Times best-selling author Ellen Hopkins crafts a powerful novel in which three women reach the midpoint of their lives, only to question everything they've accomplished so far. Stay-at-home mom Holly loses herself in a world of extramarital affairs. Her avowed celibate friend Andrea picks up Holly's castaway husband. And then there's Marissa, whose husband refuses to face the reality of their gay son and terminally ill daughter.

Publisher: Atria Books

Print pages: 544

Sample

TRIANGLES

Scientists say every action

initiates an equal and opposite

reaction. I say that’s just the start.

I say

every action initiates a most

unequal and unpredictable

chain reaction, that

every

filament of living becomes

part of a larger weave, while

remaining identifiable. That each

line

of latitude requires several

stripes of longitude to obtain

meaning. That every universe

is part

of a bigger heaven, a heaven

of rhythm and geometry,

where a heartbeat is the apex

of a triangle.

© 2011 Ellen Hopkins