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The Local News [electronic resource] : A Novel

Gershow, Miriam2009
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BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide. When fifteen-year-old Lydia Pasternak’s popular older brother Danny disappears late one summer night, she unwillingly becomes a celebrity in her community and an afterthought to her bereaved parents. In Danny’s absence, Lydia blossoms from a bookish outcast to the center of attention, all while grappling with her grudging grief for a brother she never particularly liked. When an intriguing private investigator enters the picture, Lydia finds herself drawn into the search for clues to Danny’s whereabouts. The shocking end to that trail of clues—an end that Lydia never prepares for—will haunt her for the rest of her life. An authentic and at times surprisingly funny dissection of public and private grief, The Local News is an accomplished, affecting debut.
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Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House Publishing Group, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Miriam Gershow was a fiction fellow at the University of Wisconsin. Her stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, Black Warrior Review, and Quarterly West, among other journals. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
ISBN:
9780385529709
Language:
English
BRN:
2896045
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