On My Wish List is a fun weekly event hosted by Workaday Reads and runs every Saturday. It's where we list all the books we desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming.
Author: Emily Arsenault
Publication Date: July 26, 2011
From Goodreads:
At age eleven, Nora and Charlotte are the best of friends—until their teenager babysitter, Rose, disappears under mysterious circumstances. They decide to “investigate,” using paranormal theories and techniques they glean from a hand-me-down collection of Time-Life books. But their search goes nowhere, and leaves both girls distraught and angry with each other.
In her late twenties, Nora is drawn back her old neighborhood, and to Charlotte, when Rose’s bones are found. She was probably murdered, and Charlotte is adamant that they solve the crime. Nora—who was the last known person to see Rose alive—is forced to reconsider her memory of the events surrounding the disappearance, and her own troubled adolescence following those fateful days. And she’s not sure if she’s ready to face the secrets that begin to surface.
Told in alternating narratives from the past and present, this is a mystery about broken friendship and the unease of revisiting adolescent memory.
I'm not sure how I haven't read this already. I remember it coming out and I remember wanting it desperately, but I guess like many other books it got put on the back burner and never came back into view. After reading the synopsis again, I think I need to make a valiant effort to get this. Maybe I'll just go buy it today! Doesn't it sound awesome? And I love the cover too!
What is your heart's desire this week? Leave me a link in the comments and I'll come check it out!
I haven't heard of this one before, but it sounds intriguing! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a good book. I read this last year and it was good. It was a very beautiful story.
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