Megan Abbott is the author of 10 novels, including Give Me Your Hand, You Will Know Me, The Fever, Dare Me, y The End of Everything. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, El Wall Street Journal, la Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Guardian, y El creyente, 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.