Shaye Areheart Books
February 2007
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Featuring: Laurel Estabrook
384 pages ISBN: 1400047463 EAN: 9781400047468 Hardcover Add to Wish List
When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermontโs back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he wonโt let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel discovers that he was telling the truth: before he was homeless, Bobbie Crocker was a successful photographer who had indeed worked with such legends as Chuck Berry, Robert Frost, and Eartha Kitt.
As Laurelโs fascination with Bobbieโs former life begins to merge into obsession, she becomes convinced that some of his photographs reveal a deeply hidden, dark family secret. Her search for the truth will lead her further from her old lifeโand into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her.
In this spellbinding literary thriller, rich with complex and compelling charactersโincluding Jay Gatsby and Daisy BuchananโChris Bohjalian takes readers on his most intriguing, most haunting, and most unforgettable journey yet.
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