Lisa Russ Spaar

In 1971, orphan Marlise Schade—fourteen, anorectic, and evicted from the psychiatric hospital her trust fund can no longer support—finds herself alone in an ancestral home during a blizzard. Marlise's struggles to survive there become the focal point for a host of imperilled figures, living and dead, whose stories intersect with hers and with forces roiling the U.S. in the '70s....