The Half Life: A Novel Penguin Press * Best Graphic Novel for

* Best Graphic Novel for Kids selection by the American Library Association*

she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard—a growing Red rebellion—even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction

Perceptive

The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978

and then her husband

The Half Life: A Novel Penguin Press * Best Graphic Novel forFrom the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wifes reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age. A captivating, whip smart novel about love, loyalty, and a woman torn between two lives. I utterly adored it. Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country When twenty three year old Eileen OMalley meets charismatic