Uncommon Objects: A Novel

In Despair-era Boston, a metropolis divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely pals are certain by a harmful secret on this mesmerizing novel by the New York Occasions bestselling creator of The Fragrance Collector.

Maeve Fanning is a primary technology Irish immigrant, born and raised among the many poor, industrious Italian households of Boston’s North Finish by her widowed mom. Intelligent, succesful, and as headstrong as her pink hair suggests, she’s decided to raised herself regardless of the overwhelming hardships of the Nice Despair.

Nevertheless, Maeve additionally has a harmful fondness for unusual males and bootleg gin—a rebellious urge for food that quickly finds her spiraling downward, main a double life. When the pressure proves an excessive amount of, Maeve turns into an unwilling affected person in a psychiatric hospital, the place she strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic younger girl, who, like Maeve, is unable or unwilling to manage her un-lady-like want for freedom.

As soon as out, Maeve faces beginning over once more. Armed with a bottle of bleach and some white lies, she lands a job at an eccentric antiques store catering to Boston’s wealthiest and most peculiar collectors. Run by an elusive English archeologist, the store is a haven of the obscure and unbelievable, offering uncommon artifacts in addition to distinctive entry to the world of America’s social elite. Whereas delivering a purchase order to the rich Van der Laar household, Maeve is launched to lovely socialite Diana Van der Laar—solely to find she’s the younger girl from the hospital.

Reunited with the charming however more and more unstable Diana and pursued by her enticing brother James, Mae turns into increasingly entwined with the Van der Laar household—a connection that pulls her right into a world of ethical ambiguity and deceit, and in the end betrayal. Bewitched by their wealth and determined to go away her previous behind, Maeve is pressured to unearth her true values and uncover how far she’ll to go to reinvent herself.