All These Things I've Done: A Novel (Birthright 1)

About this book

In 2083 chocolate and coffee are illegal paper is hard to find water is carefully rationed and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet for Anya Balanchine the sixteen-year-old daughter of the citys most notorious (and dead) crime boss life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.s son and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidently poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think shes to blame. Suddenly Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school in the news and most importantly within her mafia family. From Gabrielle Zevin--the author of the critically acclaimed Elsewhere--comes All These Things Ive Done a masterful novel about an impossible romance a mafiya family and the ties that forever bind us.