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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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The False Friend
Myla Goldberg

Doubleday
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.

Comments

19 comments posted.

Re: The False Friend

Bee Season
(Karen Cherubino 3:14pm September 26, 2010)

Bee Season
(Nancy Bristow 5:20pm September 26, 2010)

Bee Season
(MaryEllen Hanneman 11:10pm September 26, 2010)

Bee Season was made into a
Richard Gere film.
(Patricia Cochran 11:56pm September 26, 2010)

Bee Season
(Marguerite Guinn 11:36am September 27, 2010)

The Bee Season
(Jl Welling 8:08am September 28, 2010)

Bee Season. Can't wait to read The False Friend. Sounds great.
(Teresa Ward 5:15pm September 30, 2010)

The Bee Season
(Jodi Webb 10:20am October 1, 2010)

Bee Season
(S W 12:43pm October 1, 2010)

Bee sEASON
(Patricia Kasner 10:46pm October 3, 2010)

The Bee Season
(Alyn Yang 1:11am October 4, 2010)

Bee Season
(Carrie Conley 6:40pm October 6, 2010)

Bee Season :)
(Alexina Paiement 3:11pm October 11, 2010)

Bee Season :)

The False Friend sounds like a great read!
(Alexina Paiement 3:12pm October 11, 2010)

Bee season
(Leanna Morris 10:22am October 16, 2010)

Bee Season
(Mina Gerhart 4:48pm October 16, 2010)

the novel is BEE SEASON
(Sue Hieber 1:07pm October 21, 2010)

One of my favs Bee Season...
(Heidi Shafer-Wilson 2:11pm October 26, 2010)

Bee Season
(Joy Renee Davis 8:57am October 28, 2010)