All The Little Houses: A Novel by May Cobb holiday and memories scorched and intact—the

and memories scorched and intact—the fire exposes the cracks already forming in April and Leo’s marriage

as they spend time around one another

In an American suburb in the early 1980s

and lending a kind word to those who need it most

The novel unfolds in alternating perspectives: from April

All The Little Houses: A Novel by May Cobb holiday and memories scorched and intact—theIt's the mid 1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the scene. She always gets what she wants. What she can't get for herself well, that's what her mother is for. Because Charleigh Andersen, blond, beautiful, and ruthlessly cunning, remembers all too well having to claw her way to the top. When she was coming of age on the poor side of East Texas, she was a