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Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine a few of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric place of birth inside our culture. In The Buffalo Soldier, he introduced us to 1 of modern-day literature’s most beloved foster children. And in Before YOU UNDERSTAND Kindness, he plumbed animal rights, gun control, and what it means to be always a parent.
Chris Bohjalian’s riveting fiction keeps us awake deep into the night. As The New York Times has said, “Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian’s grace and power.” Now he's back with an ambitious new novel that travels between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, between your Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century.
When school sophomore 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 and starts to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a guy with a brief history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won’t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel discovers that he was telling the truth: before he was homeless, Bobbie Crocker was an effective photographer who had indeed worked with such legends as Chuck Berry, Robert Frost, and Eartha Kitt.
As Laurel’s fascination with Bobbie’s former life starts to merge into obsession, she becomes convinced that a few of his photographs reveal a deeply hidden, dark family secret. Her seek out the truth will lead her further from her old life—and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her.
In this spellbinding literary thriller, rich with complex and compelling characters—including Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan—Chris Bohjalian takes readers on his most intriguing, most haunting, & most unforgettable journey yet.
From the Hardcover edition.
