An award-winning journalist and author most recently of How To Be Married, Piazza draws on the stuff of political headlines for a novel that’s at once a family story and an insightful look at the realities of women in public life. Like so many, Charlotte Walsh is shocked by the results of the last presidential election, but she’s also inspired to make a difference. Uprooting her family, she leaves Silicon Valley and runs for the Senate from her childhood home in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt. Then as the campaign gets underway, Charlotte is shocked anew—not only by how harshly the press treats her, but by the dirty tactics her opponent uses, and finally by her husband’s waning support. When the other side gets hold of information she would rather keep private, Charlotte is forced to consider how much it means to her to win this race.