Overview
When Laurel
Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back
roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws
into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter.
There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness
and a box of photographs that he won’t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies,
Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secret–a story that leads her far from
her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim
they want to save her. In a tale that travels between the Roaring
Twenties and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island
and rural New England, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written
his most extraordinary novel yet.
I read this when it came out--I remember thinking it needed some editing because it was draggy in places.
ReplyDeleteYep, but still s good read
DeleteSounds like an interesting plot. I think I read something from this author before, can't remember the name of it right now, maybe something about midwives?
ReplyDeleteWill have to look for this book :)
betty
Let me know what you think
DeleteColor me, intrigued! I love stories - both in print and on the big screen - whose endings catch me by surprise. (Remember the ending of "No Where to Hide?") OK, I'm wandering off-topic - sorry!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have read (or is it a movie) No Where to Hide. You should read this one Myra....
DeleteI wanted to reread it as soon as I was done because I couldn't believe I didn't see that ending coming. It was like....whoa, what just happened here!!!
ReplyDeleteMe too! Wendy, but that just isn't my style to re-read a book. It does make me want to read The Great Gatsby again though. I read (cough, cough) that one in high school and I can't remember a thing...
DeleteYup. Never saw it coming.
ReplyDeleteNope..never, ever!
DeleteI'm glad the ending made the slow parts worthwhile.
ReplyDeleteIt did at that. I was blown completely away
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