17 & Gone
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Seventeen-year-old Lauren is having visions of girls who have gone missing. And all these girls have just one thing in common—they are 17 and gone without a trace. As Lauren struggles to shake these visions, impossible questions demand urgent answers: Why are the girls speaking to Lauren? How can she help them? And . . . is she next? Through Lauren’s search for clues, things begin to unravel, and when a brush with death lands Lauren in the hospital, a shocking truth changes everything.
With complexity and richness, Nova Ren Suma serves up a beautifully visual, fresh interpretation of what it means to be lost.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Suma follows Imaginary Girls with another reality-blurring, psychologically complex mystery. Seventeen-year-old Lauren Woodman is haunted by a vision of a girl, also 17, who has gone missing from a nearby summer camp. In rapid succession, Lauren is confronted by the spirits and stories of other missing 17-year-old girls, all of whom manifest in a recurring dream she has about a burning, rundown house. Among those missing and tormenting Lauren is her former neighbor, Fiona, who disappeared one night while babysitting Lauren. As Lauren's obsession with these girls grows, she pushes away the responsibilities of real life, along with her boyfriend and her mother, and readers are left to wonder what Lauren's role is in these girls' lives is she meant to save them? Or something deeper and more sinister? Suma writes beautifully, drawing readers into Lauren's story and her psyche with painstaking care until the story's jolting conclusion. Through Lauren's unraveling journey, readers learn firsthand what it's like to question one's own sanity. Ages 14 up.
