Sarai Walker is the author of the novel Dietland, which was published in more than a dozen countries and adapted as a TV series for the AMC network. She has lectured on feminism and body image internationally and has spoken about these topics widely in the media. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere. In The Cherry Robbers: A Novel (Harper), Iris Chapel and her five elegant sisters, all heiresses to the Chapel firearms fortune, live in a Victorian mansion. Having been neglected by a distant, workaholic father and a mentally troubled mother – who believes the victims of Chapel weapons haunt their home – the sisters have grown up with only each other for company. They long to escape the eerie fairy tale of their childhood, but for young women in 1950s Connecticut, the only way out is marriage. Except that for the Chapel sisters, marriage equals death. After the eldest sister walks down the aisle, tragedy strikes – she dies mysteriously the very next day. It is the beginning of a chain of disasters. Will love kill them all? Only Iris, the second youngest, finds a way to escape, but can she outrun the family curse forever?