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The result is sinister and surprising: a novel I couldn't put down, and one that I kept thinking about long after I'd reached its unexpected, chilling end.\" --Emily Temple, author of The Lightness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne of Newsweek, Bustle, and LitHub's Most Anticipated Books and Goodreads' \"Debut Novels to Discover in 2021,\" We Can Only Save Ourselves is the story of one\u003cbr\u003e teenage girl's unlikely indoctrination and the reverberations in the tight-knit\u003cbr\u003e community she leaves behind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlice Lange's neighbors are proud to know her--a high-achieving\u003cbr\u003e student, cheerleader, and all-around good citizen, she's a perfect emblem of\u003cbr\u003e their sunny neighborhood. The night before she's expected to\u003cbr\u003e be crowned Homecoming Queen, though, she commits an act of vandalism, then\u003cbr\u003e disappears, following a magnetic stranger named Wesley to a bungalow in another\u003cbr\u003e part of the state. 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