The Need

Helen Phillips

earliest edition we have, 2019 Simon & Schuster, 2019 hardcover 272 pages

From LA Times Book Prize finalist and author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat comes a subversive speculative thriller about a mother of two young children who, by confronting a masked intruder in her home, slips into an existential rabbit hole where she grapples with the dualities of motherhood--joy and dread, longing and suffocation--in blazing, arresting prose. "When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears...

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Editions we hold

Need edition · 2020 · Simon & Schuster · 272 pages · 9781982113179
Need edition · 2019 · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated · 272 pages · 9781982130206
Need edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 272 pages · 9780143795957
Need edition · 2019 · Center Point Large Print · 500 pages · 9781643583198
The Need hardcover · 2019 · Simon & Schuster · 272 pages · 9781982113162
Need edition · 2019 · Simon & Schuster · 272 pages · 9781982113186
Need edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 9781473565821
Need edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 272 pages · 9781784742843

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