ONE TWO THREE

ONE TWO THREE is a novel about three sixteen-year-old sisters who, when the defunct chemical plant that destroyed their family and their community moves back into town, must right the injustices that are older than they are, not only to find a way out, but to find a way forward.

Nora gave her three daughters “M” names in an effort to save precious time and keep them straight. As if single parenting sixteen-year-old triplets weren't enough, her two jobs—Bourne's only therapist and its only bartender—are both in unusually high demand. And then there's the job she can't let go—lead plaintiff in Bourne's class-action lawsuit against Bison Chemical. Seventeen years ago, the Bison plant was pumping toxic chemicals into Bourne's river. Pets got sick, then their owners did, too, plant workers died, then an emergence of birth defects. Nora assures her daughters they're perfect just the way they are, but she has still spent their whole lives fighting to make Bison pay.

When Bison announces plans to reopen the plant, the girls take up their mother's cause in a race to find evidence to stop them. Part small-town mystery, part comic novel, part love story, ONE TWO THREE takes an urgent, ripped-from-the-headlines topic and adds unusual sisters with a profound sense of justice and the wit, wisdom, and strength to fight the longest of odds together.

Laurie Frankel is the bestselling, award-winning author of three previous novels, The Atlas of Love, Goodbye for Now, and This Is How It Always Is, the latter of which sold over a quarter of a million copies. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, People magazine, Lit Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald, and other publications. A former college professor, Frankel now teaches for a variety of non-profit organizations and writes full-time in Seattle, where she lives with her family.