âONE PART MYSTERY, ONE MILLION PARTS AMAZING.â
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"How do you escape your childhood, emotionally, actually? This compelling mystery has a rare depth of psychological and emotional truth. It will engage your heart.â âDelia Ephron, New York Times bestselling author of Siracusa Tikka Malloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long, hot, Australian summer of 1992. The TV news in the background chattered with debate about the exoneration of Lindy (âdingo took my babyâ) Chamberlain. That summer was when the Van Apfel sisters--Ruth, Hannah, and the beautiful Cordelia--mysteriously disappeared. Did they just run far away from their harsh, evangelical parents, or were they taken? While the search for the girls united the small community, the mystery of their disappearance was never solved, and Tikka and her older sister, Laura, have been haunted ever since by the loss of their friends and playmates.
Now, years later, Tikka has returned home to try to make sense of that strange moment in time.
Part mystery, part darkly comic coming-of-age story, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone is a page-turning read--with a dark, shimmering absence at its heart.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Coming of Age
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Author : McLean, Felicity
Language : English
Published :2019-06-25
Number Of Pages : 304
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 161620964X
ISBN-13 : 9781616209643
Item weight : 0.71 lb
Dimensions : 0.79 in x 5.43 in x 8.19 in
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