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Descripción editorial
A stunning debut coming-of-age novel set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school.
The first time I saw my sister after she died was at the Fourth of July party. I felt someone behind me and my flesh started prickling. My skin recognized her before I did, rippling once then tightening on my bones.
My sister, Nica.
Grace spent her teenage years playing catch-up with her younger but cooler sister, Nica. Chasing and yet never quite catching up. So when Nica is murdered, Grace is cast adrift until it becomes clear to her that she must track down her sister’s killer – and in doing so, uncover the secrets she never knew her sister kept.
Reviews
‘Sharp and clever … refreshingly good’ VANITY FAIR
‘Great story, great twists, great insights – a brilliant start to a novelist's career … Already can't wait for what's next!’ Michael Connelly
‘One hell of a first novel … Meg Abbott meets TWIN PEAKS’ Greg Hurwitz
‘Fascinating, disturbing, mysterious, and at times, downright creepy – Lili Anolik’s wonderfully twisted debut novel will intoxicate readers!’ John Searles
‘A TWIN PEAKS-twisted murder mystery set at the most sinister of locales: a New England prep school’ ELLE
About the author
Lili Anolik’s work has appeared in VANITY FAIR, HARPERS, and THE BELIEVER. She graduated from Princeton University and received her MFA from Boston University. She lives in New York City with her husband and baby.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The bullet that snuffs out the life of 16-year-old wild child Nica Baker hits her family like a hollow-point, especially psychologically enmeshed big sister Grace, in this suspenseful, sad, and shattering first novel from Vanity Fair contributing editor Anolik. Only a year older, and the yang to Nica's yin, good girl Grace had been relying on her sister's charisma and cool to smooth Grace's way through the emotional minefields of Chandler Academy, the precious Hartford, Conn., private school where their parents both teach. In fact, Grace just can't let Nica go, repeatedly seeing, hearing, and talking with her during the grief-swamped, drug-muddled months that follow. When a fellow student's suicide-confession officially closes the case, Grace doesn't buy it. Deferring her enrollment at Williams, she sifts through the wreckage of their lives, ostensibly to figure out who really killed Nica, but, even more crucially, to find herself. As she starts to penetrate the myriad lies and secrets, the picture that emerges is far from pretty, with a lengthy list of suspects. Whether or not you believe in ghosts, Anolik's debut will haunt you.
