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Zusatztext "VISITATION STREET is a quiet! literary thriller told in lyrical! exacting prose. It's in the vein of Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" or Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones"-- Los Angeles Times " Informationen zum Autor Ivy Pochoda is the author of The Art of Disappearing ! Visitation Street ! and Wonder Valley ! a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and winner of the Strand Critics Award . She lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext Summer in Red Hook! Brooklyn! an isolated blue-collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless! fifteen-year-olds June and Val are looking for fun. Forget the boys! the bottles! the coded whistles. Val wants to do something wild and a little crazy: take a raft out onto the bay. But on the water during the humid night! the girls disappear. Only Val survives! washing ashore in the weeds! bruised and unconscious. This shocking event echoes through the lives of Red Hook's diverse residents. Fadi! the Lebanese bodega owner! hopes that his shop is a place to share neighborhood news! and he trolls for information about June's disappearance. Cree! just beginning to pull it together after his father's murder! unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect in the investigation! 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's buried deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan! a Juilliard dropout and barfly! wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins. In Visitation Street ! Ivy Pochoda combines intensely vivid prose with breathtaking psychological insight to explore a cast of solitary souls! pulled by family! love! betrayal! and hope! who yearn for a chance to break free. Zusammenfassung Chosen by Dennis Lehane for his eponymous imprint! Ivy Pochoda’s Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook. It’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 June’s disappearance. Cree! just beginning to pull it together after his father’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. ...
