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Penguin
July 2011
On Sale: June 30, 2011
159 pages
ISBN: 1594487995
EAN: 9781594487996
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Paranormal
The chilling, hypnotically beautiful story of a girl whose
coming of age is darkened by the secret history of her small
New England town. "A meticulous and pitch-perfect fever
dream of adolescence, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson remixed
by Mary Gaitskill." -Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress
of Solitude and Chronic City "Original, electric, and
fearless . . . Every page of The Beginners shimmers with the
intensity of language shaped around, aimed at, what can't be
said or explained within the convention of a haunted New
England town and its teenage antiheroine." -Kate
Christensen, author of The Great Man and Trouble "What a
marvel, what a wonder, is this novel. It made me think of
Rilke in collaboration with Emily Brontë. . . . Ravishing."
-Peter Straub, author of Shadowland and A Dark Matter Theo
and Raquel Motherwell are the only newcomers to the sleepy
town of Wick in fifteen-year-old Ginger Pritt's memory.
Hampered by a lingering innocence while her best friend,
Cherry, grows more and more embroiled with boys, Ginger is
instantly attracted to the worldliness and sophistication of
this dashing couple. But the Motherwells may be more than
they seem. As Ginger's keen imagination takes up the
seductive mystery of their past, she also draws closer to
her town's darker history-back to the days of the Salem
witch trials-and every new bit of information she thinks she
understands leads only to more questions. Who-or
what-exactly, are the Motherwells? And what is it they want
with her? Both a lyrical coming-of-age story and a
spine-tingling tale of ghostly menace, The Beginners
introduces Rebecca Wolff as an exciting new talent in fiction.
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