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Dutton
May 2014
On Sale: May 1, 2014
Featuring: Jensen Willard; Vera Lundy
320 pages
ISBN: 0525954376
EAN: 9780525954378
Kindle: B00G3L6L30
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller
What if a teacher’s most promising pupil is also her
most
dangerous? A tautly plotted psychological thriller, as
intelligent as it is mesmerizing What Has Become of You follows Vera Lundy, an
aspiring crime writer and master of self-deprecation who,
like many adults, has survived adolescence but hasn’t
entirely overcome it. When she agrees to fill in for a
private school English teacher on maternity leave,
teaching
The Catcher in the Rye to privileged girls, Vera
feels in over her head. The students are on edge, too, due
to the recent murder of a local girl close to their
age.
Enter Jensen Willard. At fifteen she’s
already
a gifted writer but also self-destructive and eerily
reminiscent of Vera’s younger self. As the two outcasts
forge a tentative bond, a sense of menace enfolds their
small New England town. When another student, new to the
country, is imperiled by her beliefs, Vera finds herself
in
the vortex of danger—and suspicion. With the threat of a killer at large, the disappearance of
her increasingly worrisome pupil, and her own professional
reputation at stake, Vera must thread her way among what
is
right by the law, by her students, and by herself. In this
poignant page-turner, populated with beguiling characters
and sharp social insights, coming-of-age can happen no
matter how old you are.
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