Megan Abbott is the author of 10 novels, including Give Me Your Hand, You Will Know Me, The Fever, Dare Me, and The End of Everything. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Guardian, and The Believer, among others. In The Turnout: A Novel (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were home-schooled and trained by their glamorous mother, the founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents died in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara’s husband and once their mother’s prized student. Marie, warm and soft, teaches the younger students; Dara, a precise dancer, trains the older ones; and Charlie, sidelined from dancing after years of injuries, rules over the back office. Circling one another, the three have perfected a dance that keeps the studio thriving. But then a suspicious accident occurs, an interloper arrives, and the delicate balance is threatened.
