Dear Thief: A Novel

Dear Thief: A Novel

<div>"You were going to work your way into my marriage and you were going to call its new three-way shape holy," writes the unnamed narrator of <I>Dear Thief</I>.<BR><BR>The thief is Nina, or Butterfly, who disappeared eighteen years earlier and who is being summoned by this letter, this bomb, these recollections, revisions, accusations, and confessions.<BR><br>“Sometimes I imagine, out of sheer playfulness, that I am writing this as a kind of defence for having murdered and buried you under the patio.”<BR><br><I>Dear Thief</I> is a letter to an old friend, a song, a jewel, and a continuously surprising triangular love story. Samantha Harvey writes with a dazzling blend of fury and beauty about the need for human connection and the brutal vulnerability that need exposes.<BR><br>“While I write my spare hand might be doing anything for all you know; it might be driving a pin into your voodoo stomach.”<BR><br>Here is a rare novel that traverses the human heart in original and indelible ways.<BR></div>