Sanctuary
A Novel
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Sanctuary
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Honor Jones
Something is wrong in the narrator’s marriage. Something is wrong at work. But if she ignores the warning signs, maybe they will all go away.
Then comes the invitation to a summer at Sanctuary, and it’s too good to resist. An island refuge, free childcare, free housing, and a nice big raise. Her new boss, a “free thinking” pundit, has arranged everything. He’s obsessed with the culture war and enthusiastic about the real war, and he’s a lot of fun—if she can forget how much power he has. None of this really matters, though, because she brought her family to Sanctuary for one reason: to make her husband happy.
But as the glittering summer nights give way to muggy mornings, she becomes more and more disturbed. Her boss has a tenuous relationship with truth. Her husband is acting even more strangely than usual. As her world begins to unravel, the woman is faced with a dilemma: Should she labor to maintain the lies on which her life has apparently been constructed, or might the truth really set her free?
Wry, entertaining, and morally complex, Sanctuary skewers thought leaders with too much influence, busybody millionaires, and a society in denial about itself. It is a deft, biting, often hilarious indictment of our outrageous world.
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Praise for Sanctuary
“Sanctuary is wily, funny and astute. Honor Jones gleefully tackles the absurdities of marriage, parenthood, work, class anxiety, and today’s cultural and political landscape.” —Rumaan Alam, author of Entitlement
“Jones’s second novel seamlessly blends the personal and the political, the moral and the marital, in a taut drama that will keep you turning pages long into the night. A literary thriller with a beating heart, Sanctuary asks which is more alarming: when things aren’t what they seem, or when they are?” —Andrew Ridker, author of Hope
“Sanctuary is wily, funny and astute. Honor Jones gleefully tackles the absurdities of marriage, parenthood, work, class anxiety, and today’s cultural and political landscape.” —Rumaan Alam, author of Entitlement
“Jones’s second novel seamlessly blends the personal and the political, the moral and the marital, in a taut drama that will keep you turning pages long into the night. A literary thriller with a beating heart, Sanctuary asks which is more alarming: when things aren’t what they seem, or when they are?” —Andrew Ridker, author of Hope
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