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Meet the lovable but dysfunctional Lake family over the four days that will make or break them When Vance Lake - broke, jobless, and recently dumped - takes refuge with twin brother Craig back home on Cape Cod, he unwittingly finds himself smack in the middle of a crisis that would test the bonds of even the most cohesive family, let alone the Lakes. Craig is strangely mournful and angry at equal turns. His exasperated wife, Gina, is on the brink of an affair. At the center of it all is seventeen-year-old Amanda: adored niece, rebellious daughter, and stubborn stepdaughter. She's also pregnant. Told in alternating points of view by each member of this colorful New England clan, and infused with the quiet charm of the Cape in the off-season, The News from the End of the World follows one family into a crucible of pent-up resentments, old and new secrets, and memories long buried.
About the Author
Emily Jeanne Miller was born and raised in Washington, DC. She attended the National Cathedral School and then Princeton University, where she studied comparative religions. She worked as a newspaper reporter, covering environmental topics ranging from Indian casinos to nuclear bomb testing to grizzly bears.
She lived in Missoula, Montana, where she co-edited an anthology of writing from the Clark Fork River basin (The River We Carry With Us, Clark City Press, Livingston, MT, 2002) , and earned a Master's degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. She also has an MFA in fiction from the University of Florida.
Her short fiction has been published in the North American Review and The Portland Review. She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
She is the author of the novels Brand New Human Being (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) , and The News From the End of the World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) .
She currently lives on Cape Cod with her husband, daughter, and dog.
photo credit: Eliza Truitt
