Literary Fiction

Record Lows

5 January 2027 · United States

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Why it is on our radar

A blizzard brings a family’s private crises into the open, while a missing creditor gives a newspaper editor’s daughter an investigation close to home.

About the book

During the 1977 blizzard in upstate New York, a struggling newspaper editor sees his debts disappear with a missing creditor. His daughter treats the disappearance as a reporting opportunity, while other members of the Pond family conceal problems that the gathering storm makes harder to ignore.