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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. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-old June and Val take a pink plastic raft out onto the bay. But on the water, in the humid night, the girls disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore, bruised and unconscious, in the weeds. The shocking event will echo through a group of unforgettable characters, including Fadi, an ambitious Lebanese bodega owner; Cree, a lost teenager who unwittingly makes himself the cops' chief suspect; Jonathan, Julliard drop-out, barfly, and struggling high school teacher; and Val, the grieving girl who must contend with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she holds deep inside. 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. ...
