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Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. It's a place where neighbors keep an eye on one another's kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a child, Maggie found living under the microscope of small-town life stifling. But as a wife and mother, she has happily returned to The Hollows's insular embrace. As a psychologist, her knowledge of family histories provides powerful insights into her patients' lives. So when the girlfriend of her teenage son, Rick, disappears, Maggie's intuitive gift proves useful to the case--and also dangerous. Eerie parallels soon emerge between Charlene's disappearance and the abduction of another local girl that shook the community years ago when Maggie was a teenager. The investigation has her husband, Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely. Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. In a town where the past is always present, nobody is above suspicion, not even a son in the eyes of his father. "I know how a moment can spiral out of control," Jones says to a shocked Maggie as he searches Rick's room for incriminating evidence. "How the consequences of one careless action can cost you everything." As she tries to reassure him that Rick embodies his father in all of the important ways, Maggie realizes this might be exactly what Jones fears most. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charlene's disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secret--one that could destroy everything she holds dear. This thrilling novel about one community's intricate yet fragile bonds will leave readers asking, How well do I know the people I love? and How far would I go to protect them?

About the Author :
Lisa Unger is an award-winning "New York Times "and international bestselling author. Her novels have sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. and have been translated into 26 different languages.

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"[A] nail-biting nuanced whodunit." "--People ""Folks in a small town descend into darkness and revisit long forgotten memories when a young girl disappears....[A] simmering, tragic tale. Fans of authors like Jodi Picoult will want to read this one in a nice comfortable chair....Unger's fans won't be disappointed." "--Associated Press " "This one is a stunner...Unger's genius is in plotting the story so that the reader never knows what's coming next...This is a read that will stay with you." "--New York Journal of Books Review " "Unger skillfully builds suspense by alternating point of view from chapter to chapter... Too many thrillers rely on coincidence or outlandish twists to connect the dots in a crime investigation, but Unger makes that process organic by using the interconnectedness of her characters' lives over the decades -- these people really do know each others' secrets. Even apparently unrelated threads -- like the chapters about the exterminator called in to trap the raccoons in Elizabeth's attic -- are cleverly woven into the plot. Unger is also adept at drawing believable characters and relationships. Much of the emotional weight and considerable tension of "Fragile" have to do with families, with how parents and their children relate (or don't) and how husbands and wives can think they know everything about each other -- and then find themselves surprised." --"St. Petersburg Times" "If you're a fan of Jodi Picoult's family chronicle storytelling, you'll enjoy "Fragile," too. It's set in a small affluent town outside New York, where everyone knows someone who kissed the pizza guy once and many have ugly memories and buried secrets. When a teenage girl goes missing, the lives of all who knew her unravel. Unger balances nicely the suspense of her missing person story (a layered one when the vanishing of another teenage girl 30 years earlier is connected) with deeper sentiments. How do you live in the present whenr


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780307393999
  • Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Shaye Areheart Books
  • Height: 237 mm
  • No of Pages: 327
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 165 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0307393992
  • Publisher Date: 16 Aug 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 544 gr


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