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A beautiful and chilling exploration of violence, vengeance, and the loss of innocence that would drive someone to commit an unthinkable crime
Simon and Schuster
March 2011
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Featuring: Alice Piper; Wendy White; Stacy Flynn
304 pages
ISBN: 1451616759
EAN: 9781451616750
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“A mixture of The Lovely Bones and The Girl with
the Dragon Tattoo.”—Booklist
When she disappeared from her rural hometown,
Wendy White was a sweet, family-oriented girl, a late
bloomer who’d recently moved out on her own, with her first
real boyfriend and a job waiting tables at the local tavern.
It happens all the time—a woman goes missing, a family
mourns, and the case remains unsolved. Stacy Flynn is a
reporter looking for her big break. She moved east from
Cleveland, a city known for its violent crime, but that’s
the last thing she expected to cover in Haeden. This small,
upstate New York town counts a dairy farm as its main
employer and is home to families who’ve set down roots and
never left—people who don’t take kindly to outsiders. Flynn
is researching the environmental impact of the dairy, and
the way money flows outward like the chemical runoff,
eventually poisoning those who live at the edges of its
reach. Five months after she disappeared, Wendy’s
body is found in a ditch just off one of Haeden’s main
roads. Suddenly, Flynn has a big story, but no one wants to
talk to her. No one seems to think that Wendy’s killer could
still be among them. A drifter, they say. Someone “not from
here.” Fifteen-year-old Alice Piper is an imaginative
student with a genius IQ and strong ideals. The precocious,
confident girl has stood out in Haeden since the day her
eccentric hippie parents moved there from New York City,
seeking a better life for their only child. When Alice reads
Flynn’s passionate article in the Haeden Free Press
about violence against women—about the staggering number
of women who are killed each day by people they know—she
begins to connect the dots of Wendy’s disappearance and
death, leading her to make a choice: join the rest in
turning a blind eye, or risk getting involved. As Flynn and
Alice separately observe the locals’ failure to acknowledge
a murderer in their midst, Alice’s fate is forever entwined
with Wendy’s when a second crime rocks the town to its core.
Stylishly written, closely observed, and bracingly
unexpected, So Much Pretty leads the reader into the
treacherous psychology of denial, where the details of an
event are already known, deeply and intuitively felt, but
not yet admitted to, reconciled or revealed.
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