Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott joins Books Are Magic to speak about her revelatory and mesmerizing new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. The Turnout follows Dara and Marie Durant who 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. Tune in for conversation with the author on family ties, sexuality, femininity and power.

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