Bryn Chancellor

Sycamore (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A body, and an unsolved mystery, resurface in an Arizona town in this poignant page-turner: "Begins quietly, quickly gains momentum, and ends explosively." -Library Journal (starred review) Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine.As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong toJess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has soaked into the porous rock of the town and haunted it ever since. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, the residents rekindle stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant as they revisit Jess'stroubledhistory.In resurrecting the past, the people of Sycamore will find clarity, unexpected possibility, and a way forward for their lives. Skillfully interweaving multiple points of view,Sycamoreis a coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a moving exploration of the elemental forces that drive human nature-desire, loneliness, grief, love, forgiveness, and hope-as witnessed through the inhabitants of one small Southwestern town. "Masterful... both propulsive and perfectly composed." -Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times-bestselling author ofGood Company "Takes readers beyond a standard whodunit and provides a more compelling take on what the experience does to the town." -St. Louis Post- Dispatch "A movingly written, multivoiced novel examining how one tragic circumstance can sow doubt about fundamental things." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Hypnotic." -O, The Oprah Magazine A Southwest Book of the Year, Pima County Public Library

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 341
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062661111
• Artikelnr.: 47039734

Autorenporträt

Bryn Chancellor's story collection When Are You Coming Home? (University of Nebraska Press) won a Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and her short fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Phoebe, and elsewhere. Other honors include the Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award in fiction, and literary fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the North Carolina Arts Council. She teaches at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Rezensionen

"This hypnotic debut probes the disappearance of 17-year-old Jess . . . . Chancellor shifts nimbly between past and present and from character to character, cutting away the net of riddles that ensnares Sycamore's residents." Oprah magazine, "O's Top 20 Books to Read This Summer"