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Gallery Books
March 2013
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Featuring: Mr. Leonard
275 pages
ISBN: 1451684746
EAN: 9781451684742
Kindle: B008J48MF4
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Tom Perottaโs Little Children meets Alice Seboldโs The Lovely Bones in this suspenseful and beautifully wrought story of a seventeen-year-old girl who vanishes on the eve of her departure for college, as told through the alternating perspectives of her neighbors. Seventeen-year-old Linsey Hart disappears the day before sheโs due to leave for college. As her neighbors piece together what they saw and what they think they know about the missing girl, their long-held secrets, prejudices, and entanglements become rudely evident. Thereโs Linseyโs mother, Abigail, whose door-to-door searching makes her social outcast status painfully obvious; stay-at-home mom Reeva, whose primary concern is covering up the affair sheโs been having with the Starbucks barista; Mr. Leonard, a reclusive retired piano teacherโand the last person to see Linsey alive; George, an eleven year-old gifted loner who is determined to find out what happened to Linsey; and Timmy, Linseyโs ex-boyfriend, who is left grieving as he embarks on his own college career. A keenly observed portrait of a small town under duress, When She Was Gone is a searing portrayal of the bonds that hold a community togetherโand the secrets and lies that threaten to rip it apart.
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