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For fans of Gillian Flynn, Scott Smith, and Daniel Woodrell comes a gripping, suspenseful novel about two secret disappearances a era apart. The town of Henbane rests profound in the Ozark Mountains. Folks there still whisper about Lucy Dane's mom, a bewitching stranger who came out long enough to marry Carl Dane and then vanished when Lucy was simply a child. Now on the brink of adulthood, Lucy experiences another damage when her friend Cheri disappears and is also then found murdered, her body placed on display for all to see. Lucy's family has profound roots in the Ozarks, part of a community that is fiercely protective of its. Yet despite her close ties to the land, and despite her family's effect, Lucy - darkly beautiful as her mom was - is actually considered by those around her as her mother's little princess. When Cheri disappears, Lucy is haunted by the two lost females - the mom she never understood and the friend she couldn't save - and sets out by using a local young man, Daniel, to discover the mystery behind Cheri's fatality. What Lucy discovers is a magic formula that pervades the secluded Missouri hills, and beyond that horrific revelation is a far more personal one regarding what happened to her mom more than a decade earlier. The Weight of Bloodstream can be an urgent look at the dark side of a bucolic landscape beyond the arm of the law, where a person may easily disappear with out a track. Laura McHugh demonstrates herself a masterly storyteller who has created a tough and tangled surfaces as alive and unforgettable as the characters who inhabit it. Her mesmerizing debut is a persuasive exploration of the meaning of family: the sacrifices we make, the secrets we keep, and the measures to which we goes to protect the methods we love.
