WIDER THAN THE SKY

Tell the Wolves I'm Home meets The Sky Is Everywhere in Katherine Field Rothschild's YA contemporary novel WIDER THAN THE SKY.

In the wake of sudden tragedy, twin sisters uncover a secret that rips open their world. Katherine Rothschild explores the pain and
power of forgiveness in a stunning debut novel that will shatter your heart and piece it back together, one truth at a time.

Sixteen-year-old Sabine Braxton and her identical twin, Blythe, don't have much in common. When their father dies from an unexpected illness, each copes with the loss in her own way - Sabine by "poeting" (an uncontrollable quirk of bursting into poetry at inappropriate moments) and Blythe by obsessing over getting into MIT, their father's alma mater. Neither can offer each other much support... at least not until their emotionally detached mother moves them into a ramshackle Bay Area mansion owned by a stranger named Charlie.

Soon the sisters are united in a mission to figure out who Charlie is and why he seems to know everything about them. Neither is prepared for the secret they uncover: their father died of an HIV-related infection, Charlie was his lover, and their mother knows the whole story. Confronted with the truth, Sabine chooses to learn all she can about the father she never knew - and ultimately she must decide if she can embrace the legacy he wanted but kept hidden from his children.

Katherine Field Rothschild is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Mary's College in San Francisco. She teaches Arabic dance at Girls Inc., and Twitter-follows food trucks obsessively. Her first-person essays have been published on KQED/NPR, in The San Francisco Chronicle, and several other Bay Area/California publications and she's the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Artist's Grant. She graduated from UC Irvine's Creative Writing Program and earned an MFA in Fiction Writing at St. Mary's College of California.