Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Believer and the Los Angeles Review of Books.īorn in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. She was also a staff writer on HBO's THE DEUCE.

Megan Abbott is the Edgar®-winning author of the novels Die a Little, Queenpin, The Song Is You, Bury Me Deep, The End of Everything, Dare Me, The Fever, You Will Know Me and Give Me Your Hand.Ībbott is co-showrunner, writer and executive producer of DARE ME, the TV show adapated from her novel. With its uncanny insight and writing that haunts, The Turnout is Megan Abbott at the height of her game-a sharp and strange dissection of family ties and sexuality, femininity, and power, and a sinister tale that is both alarming and irresistible. As Dara and Marie take over their mother's duty of running the Durant School of Dance, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student, the sisters perfect a fine dance, circling around one another, six days a week, keeping the studio thriving.īut when another eerily suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker-a season of tense competition, provoked anxiety, and wild exhilaration-an interloper arrives and threatens the sisters' delicate balance.

Not much changes when their parents face death in a tragic accident. With their long necks, sheer tights, and taut buns, Dara and Marie Durant have only known the course of a well-bred dancer. New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's exquisite new novel, set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio.

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