Marlena
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- R$ 29,90
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- R$ 29,90
Descrição da editora
Pessoas entram e saem de nossas vidas o tempo todo. Aquelas que deixam marcas profundas são as que te ensinarão a viver.
Cat tem 15 anos e se sente sozinha e perdida ao deixar para trás o mundo que conhecia para viver numa pequena cidade no interior de Michigan. Mas sua vida se transforma quando ela conhece sua nova vizinha. Marlena é uma garota destemida, determinada e fora de controle. Logo as duas se tornam inseparáveis e passam a testar seus limites, em busca de novas experiências e, principalmente, de um sentido para a vida. Até que um desfecho inesperado põe fim a esta amizade. Quase 20 anos depois, Cat relembra aquele período de excessos e ainda luta para perdoar a amiga e a si mesma, neste romance ao mesmo tempo sensível e brutal sobre uma amizade obsessiva e sobre pessoas que, não importa o quanto se demorem, deixam marcas profundas na vida de outras.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her impressive debut novel, Buntin displays a remarkable control of tone and narrative arc. In a keenly observed study of teenage character, narrator Catherine, 15, is miserable in the ramshackle house her newly divorced mother has bought in the dismal town of Silver Lake in northern Michigan. When she meets Marlena, her glamorous 17-year-old next-door neighbor, Cat is smitten with the euphoria of having a best friend. Buntin is particularly sensitive to the misery of adolescent angst, and Cat's growing happiness in Marlena's friendship runs like an electric wire through the narrative. Marlena is dangerous, however: she runs with a bad crowd, and her father cooks meth. From the beginning, we know that Marlena is irresistible, reckless, and brave; she's a mother substitute for her forlorn younger brother musically talented, beautiful, and doomed to die young. It's only later that Cat understands that Marlena is the needy one in their relationship. Her bravado hides desperation; she fears she'll never get out of Silver Lake, that she has no future, and that "there were kids like us all over rural America." Almost 20 years later, living in New York with her husband and working at a good job, Cat is still damaged by losing Marlena. Crippled by "the pain at the utter core of me," she takes refuge in alcohol and memories. The novel is poignant and unforgettable, a sustained eulogy for Marlena's "glow... that lives in lost things, that sets apart the gone forever."
