02514cam a2200373 i 4500 507517815 TxAuBib 20210729120000.0 210323s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021013410 9780593084908 HRD 27.00 059308490X HRD 27.00 (OCoLC)1196176769 TxAuBib rda Abbott, Megan E., 1971- The turnout : a novel / Megan Abbott. Turn-out. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2021] 340 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Read with Jenna"--Jacket. "Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's revelatory and mesmerizing new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio"-- Provided by publisher. With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. Marie, warm and soft, teaches the younger students; Dara, with her precision, trains the older ones; and Charlie, sidelined from dancing after years of injuries, rules over the back office. Circling around one another, the three have perfected a dance, six days a week, that keeps the studio thriving. But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker—a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration—an interloper arrives and threatens the sisters' delicate balance. Taut and unnerving, The Turnout is Megan Abbott at the height of her game. With uncanny insight and hypnotic writing, it is a sharp and strange dissection of family ties and sexuality, femininity and power, and a tale that is both alarming and irresistible. 20210804. jz. Ballet dancers Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Dance studios Fiction. Family-owned business enterprises Fiction. Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)