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A spellbinding historical book about a girl who befriends Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and is also drawn to their world of intrigue, from the author of Margot. On June 19, 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were performed for conspiring to commit espionage. The day Ethel was initially caught in 1950, she still left her two young sons with a neighbor, and she never emerged home to them again. Brilliantly melding reality and fiction, Jillian Cantor reimagines the life of this neighbor and the lives of Ethel and Julius, an ordinary-seeming Jewish few who became the one Us citizens put to death for spying during the Cold War. A couple of years previously, in 1947, Millie Stein steps with her husband, Ed, and their young child child, David, into a flat on the 11th floor in Knickerbocker Town on New York's Lower East Area. Her new neighborhood friends are the Rosenbergs. Battling to look after David, who doesn't speak, and isolated from other "normal" people, Millie complies with Jake, a psychologist who says he is able to help David, and befriends Ethel, also a mother. Millie and Ethel's lives as friends, wives, mothers, and neighborhood friends entwine, even while chaos starts to swirl round the Rosenbergs and the FBI closes in. Millie starts to question her own husband's political devotion and her relationship and whether she can trust Jake and the deep connection they may have forged as they secretly use David. Captured between both of these men, both of whom have their own agendas, and eager to help her friends, Millie will find herself drawn into the dramatic span of background. As Millie - trusting and naive - is tossed into a world of lies, intrigue, spies and counterspies, she realizes she must fight for what she is convinced, who she enjoys, and what's right.
