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The Fates Will Find Their Way
Hannah Pittard
Ecco
February 2011
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Featuring: Nora Lindell
256 pages
ISBN: 006199605X
EAN: 9780061996054
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Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the
neighborhood boys she's left behind are caught forever in
the heady current of her absence. As the days and
years pile up, the mystery of her disappearance grows
kaleidoscopically. A collection of rumors, divergent
suspicions, and tantalizing what-ifs, Nora Lindell's story
is a shadowy projection of teenage lust, friendship,
reverence, and regret, captured magically in the disembodied
plural voice of the boys who still long for her. Told
in haunting, percussive prose, Hannah Pittard's beautifully
crafted novel tracks the emotional progress of the sister
Nora left behind, the other families in their leafy suburban
enclave, and the individual fates of the boys in her thrall.
Far more eager to imagine Nora's fate than to scrutinize
their own, the boys sleepwalk into an adulthood of jobs,
marriages, families, homes, and daughters of their own, all
the while pining for a girl–and a life–that no longer
exists, except in the imagination. A masterful
literary debut that shines a light into the dream-filled
space between childhood and all that follows, The Fates
Will Find Their Way is a story about the stories we tell
ourselves–of who we once were and may someday become.
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