Jennifer Haigh

“Jennifer Haigh renders her characters and contemporary Shanghai with compelling richness and exhilarating precision. This taut, devastating novel about a young woman’s dark fate—at once avoidable and inexorable— will remain with you long after you put it down.”
—Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History

“Gripping, propulsive, and entirely credible, Rabbit Moon succeeds in multiple dimensions and gets Shanghai right. Brava!”
—Gish Jen, author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon

Haigh keeps this family drama firing on all cylinders, and she succeeds at capturing Shanghai’s dizzying effect on her characters. Readers will be transported.
—Publishers Weekly

A gripping novel of suspense, infused with great empathy.
—Library Journal (starred review)

Capturing both the possibilities of reinvention and the scars carried from a traumatic past, Haigh's searing novel examines the interplay between choice and chance.
—Booklist

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street, a tense, propulsive family drama set in Shanghai, where a fractured American family faces its complicated past.

Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: Their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically injured in a hit-and-run accident. At a Shanghai hospital, they wait at her bedside, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

The accident unearths a deeper fissure in the family: the shocking event that ended the Litvaks’ marriage and turned Lindsey against them. Estranged from her parents, she has confided only in her younger sister, Grace, adopted as an infant from China. As they struggle to get their bearings in bustling, cosmopolitan Shanghai, the newly prosperous “miracle city,” Claire and Aaron face troubling questions about Lindsey’s life there, in which nothing is quite as it seems.

With her trademark psychological acuity, Jennifer Haigh delivers a taut, suspenseful story about family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sisters, the fabled red thread that ties them together across space and time.