From Gabrielle Zevin--the New York Times best-selling author of
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J.
Fikry--comes the first book in the Birthright series, All These
Things I've Done, a masterful novel about an impossible romance, a
mafia family, and the ties that forever bind us.
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
city's 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 she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds
herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school, in the news,
and most importantly, within her mafia family.