Dennis Lehane Books/Ecco
April 2014
On Sale: April 15, 2014
320 pages ISBN: 0062249908 EAN: 9780062249906 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy PochodaΓ’β¬β’s Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook. ItΓ’β¬β’s summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see. And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore; semi-conscious in the weeds. This shocking event will echo through the lives of a diverse cast of Red Hook residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, hopes that his shop will be the place to share neighborhood news and troll for information about JuneΓ’β¬β’s disappearance. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his fatherΓ’β¬β’s murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect, but an enigmatic and elusive guardian is determined to keep him safe. Val contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she buries deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan, a Julliard School dropout and barfly, wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins.
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