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A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod
Broadway
June 2004
On Sale: June 1, 2004
432 pages
ISBN: 0767913760
EAN: 9780767913768
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Non-Fiction | True Crime
A literary investigation by "one of the most powerful
American writers at work today" [Annie Proulx] of a story
that riveted the nation: how an accomplished, world-traveled
fashion writer who had retreated to a simpler life as a
single mother on Cape Cod became the victim of a brutal,
still-unsolved murder.
On the surface, Christa
Worthington’s life had the appearance of privilege and
comfort. She was the granddaughter of prominent New Yorkers.
Her sparkling journalism earned the fashion world’s respect.
But she had turned her back on a glamorous career and begun
living in the remote Cape Cod town where she had summered as
a child. When she was found murdered in Truro,
Massachusetts, just after New Year’s Day in 2002, her
toddler daughter clinging to her side, her violent
death brought to the surface the many unspoken mysteries of
her life.
Invisible Eden is the deeply
felt story of a career woman's attempt to start over and
reinvent her life away from the fashion circles of New York
and Paris only to have an out-of-wedlock child with a local
fisherman, forge a life as a single mother, and meet a
violent end. Brilliantly portraying Christa’s hunger for
belonging and her struggle for survival as a first-time
mother, Flook searingly evokes her search for a safe haven,
her many tumultuous relationships, and the evidence linking
family, strangers, lovers, suspects, and innocents to the
tragedy that both shocked a seaside town on Cape Cod and
horrified the nation. Flook intricately maps Christa's
charged life before her death and follows the first year of
the murder investigation with the help of the district
attorney who is in an election battle even as he searches
for the killer. At the same time, Invisible Eden
captures the Cape's haunted landscape, class
stratifications, and never-ending battles between its weathy
summer residents and its hardscrabble working families who
together form a backdrop for a powerful chronicle of love
and murder. An edgy and compelling portrait of a woman's
tragic journey, Invisible Eden is a mesmerizing true
story.
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