# Trenton Makes

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- Book: [Trenton Makes](https://www.bookquiver.com/tadzio-koelb/trenton-makes) ([Trenton Makes.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tadzio-koelb/trenton-makes.md))
- Authors: [Tadzio Koelb](https://www.bookquiver.com/tadzio-koelb)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-17-8649-407-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2019-06-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, 2018 __________________________________________ “A novel of bewitching ingenuity” New York Times “Electrifying” Lit Hub __________________________________________ Abe Kunstler wants his share of the American Dream, which for him is a factory job, a wife and a family. Getting these things will be harder for Abe than it is for other people, however, because his life is a lie – an invention forged in the heat of a terrible crime . Haunted by his past, terrified of exposure, and searching obsessively for redemption, Abe moves from one ruthless act to the next, tricking an alcoholic young taxi-dancer into becoming first his wife, then the mother of a child she believes is his. When the life they have built is threatened, he becomes desperate, until even Abe himself isn’t sure how far he’ll go to keep his secret…