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Also by Chris Bohjalian:

The Amateur, August 2026
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The Lioness, May 2022
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Hour of the Witch, May 2021
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The Night Strangers, October 2011
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Secrets Of Eden, February 2010
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The Double Bind, February 2007
Hardcover

THE DOUBLE BIND
By: Chris Bohjalian

Shaye Areheart Books
February 2007
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Featuring: Laurel Estabrook
384 pages
ISBN: 1400047463
EAN: 9781400047468
Hardcover
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Literature and Fiction Literary

When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s 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 won’t 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 Laurel’s fascination with Bobbie’s 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 life—and 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 characters—including Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan—Chris Bohjalian takes readers on his most intriguing, most haunting, and most unforgettable journey yet.

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