TY  - BOOK
AU  - Austin,Emily
TI  - We Could Be Rats
SN  - 9781668058145
PY  - 0000///January 282025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atria Books
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Small cities
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Imagination
KW  - Suicidal behavior
KW  - Best friends
KW  - LGBTQ
KW  - local
KW  - Opioid abuse
KW  - dark humor
KW  - LGBTQ+ fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - new book 2025 spring
N2  - "A new novel from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space. Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of adulthood, she did not graduate high school, preferring to roam the streets of her small town with her best friend Greta, the only person in the world who ever understood her. Her older sister Margit is baffled and frustrated by Sigrid's inability to conform to the expectations of polite society. But Sigrid's detachment veils a deeper turmoil and sensitivity. She's haunted by the pains of her past, from pretending her parents were swamp monsters when they shook the floorboards with their violent arguments to grappling with losing Greta's friendship to the opioid epidemic ravaging their town. As Margit sets out to understand Sigrid and the secrets she has hidden, both sisters, in their own time and way, discover that reigniting their shared childhood imagination is the only way forward."--
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