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When she was gone

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An edition of When she was gone (2012)

When she was gone

1st Gallery Books trade paperback ed.
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When seventeen-year-old Linsey Hart disappears, her entire neighborhood confronts long-buried secrets and prejudices as her social outcast mother goes door-to-door in search of her missing daughter.

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Publisher
Gallery Books
Language
English
Pages
277

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When she was gone
2012, Gallery Books
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3557.R568 W48 2012, PS3557.R568W48 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
277

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25347681M
Internet Archive
whenshewasgone0000gros
ISBN 10
1451684746
ISBN 13
9781451684742, 9781451684766
LCCN
2012022605
OCLC/WorldCat
795062891

Work Description

Just before she’s supposed to start her freshman year at college, Linsey Hart goes missing. Her absence rocks the insular commuter community, whose hypocritical residents publicly wonder how such a thing could happen, while privately disdaining the people and events at the center of Linsey’s life. Her neighbor, Mr. Leonard, muses about Linsey’s disappearance as he plays Rachmaninoff nocturnes while wearing his deceased mother’s evening gown. George, an 11-year-old social misfit, surreptitiously photographs the town’s denizens, searching for clues as to Linsey’s whereabouts. Randy, middle-aged soccer mom Reeva mourns the loss of Linsey as a babysitter for her autistic son, but not to the point where it interferes with her affair with Jordan, a Starbucks barista half her age. Meanwhile, Linsey’s ex-boyfriend Timmy and her mother, Abigail, each grapple with self-recriminations over their roles in driving Linsey away. Gross’ canny twist on the missing-child trope is less a taunting mystery than a caustic indictment of the superficiality of suburban mores and morals.

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