Stakes Is High id true crime there is only one person

there is only one person she can turn to--the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis

Infatuated by the creative chaos of the Trenthams and the artists who orbit them

and move back to your dinky hometown in upstate New York -- the place you couldn't wait to leave when you were young

"Should be read by every leader in America" —Wall Street Journal

feeling out of place in both her body and her family

Stakes Is High id true crime there is only one personWinner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Brave, clear eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future. The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs about our American identity: our exceptionalism, the inevitable rightness of our path, the promise that hard work and determination will