The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown

The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown

The dark side of a seemingly perfect Connecticut suburb comes to light when one woman's long-buried secrets refuse to stay in the past, in this engrossing debut novel of psychological suspense.

It's an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child on the edge of adolescence. It seems like July and August will pass lazily by, just as they have every year before. But one day, Sadie and her best friend play a seemingly harmless prank on a neighborhood girl. Soon after, that same little girl disappears from a backyard barbecue--and she is never seen again. Twenty years pass, and Sadie is still living in the same quiet suburb. She's married to a good man, has two beautiful children, and seems to have put her past behind her. But when a boy from her old neighborhood returns to town, the nightmares of that summer will begin to resurface, and its unsolved mysteries will finally become clear.

Karen Brown is a Connecticut native who attended Cornell University and the University of South Florida in Tampa, where she earned an MA in Creative Writing and is currently pursuing a PhD. Her work has published in a number of literary publications, and she has been awarded an O. The O. Henry Award for Unction, initially published in The Georgia Review and included in The O. Henry Prize for Unction, originally published in The Georgia Review and included in The O. Henry Prize for Un 2006 Henry Prize Stories www.karenbrownbooks.com is her website.

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ISBN 13	9781476724911
ISBN 10	1476724911
Title	The Longings of Wayward Girls
Author	Karen Brown
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2013-07-02
Number of pages	336
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