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Also by Myla Goldberg:

Feast Your Eyes, February 2020
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Feast Your Eyes, April 2019
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The False Friend, October 2010
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Wickett's Remedy, September 2005
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Bee Season, May 2001
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THE FALSE FRIEND
By: Myla Goldberg

October 2010
On Sale: October 5, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 0385527217
EAN: 9780385527217
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

From the bestselling author of Bee Season comes an astonishingly complex psychological drama with a simple setup: two eleven-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods. Only one comes out . . .

Leaders of a mercurial clique of girls, Celia and Djuna reigned mercilessly over their three followers. One after­noon, they decided to walk home along a forbidden road. Djuna disappeared, and for twenty years Celia blocked out how it happened.

The lie Celia told to conceal her misdeed became the accepted truth: everyone assumed Djuna had been abducted, though neither she nor her abductor was ever found. Celia’s unconscious avoidance of this has meant that while she and her longtime boyfriend, Huck, are professionally successful, they’ve been unable to move forward, their relationship falling into a rut that threatens to bury them both.

Celia returns to her hometown to confess the truth, but her family and childhood friends don’t believe her. Huck wants to be supportive, but his love can’t blind him to all that contra­dicts Celia’s version of the past.

Celia’s desperate search to understand what happened to Djuna has powerful consequences. A deeply resonant and emotionally charged story, The False Friend explores the adults that children become—leading us to question the truths that we accept or reject, as well as the lies to which we succumb.

Media Buzz

Diane Rehm Show - NPR - October 13, 2010