Pretty is

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Mitchell, Maggie
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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"Everyone thought we were dead. We were missing for nearly two months, we were twelve. What else could they think?--Lois It's always been hard to talk about what happened without sounding all melodramatic. . . . Actually, I haven't mentioned it for years, not to a goddamned person.--Carly May When precocious Lois and pretty Carly May were twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across the country, and held in an Adirondack hunting lodge for two months. Maggie Mitchell's spellbinding debut Pretty Is is about the repercussions of that formative summer, when two girls who previously did not know each other shared an experience that would shape all their days to come. At the novel's start, Lois Lonsdale has begun teaching British literature at a small college in upstate New York. Out in LA, Chloe Savage (formerly Carly May) is a lonely actress, drinking too much and struggling to revive her career. When a movie script with a shockingly familiar plot comes into their lives, the women must grapple with unresolved losses and gains that have lain hidden for years behind the public's feverish presumptions"-- Provided by publisher.

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Looks interesting, but... submitted by Kikumatsu97 on July 26, 2015, 7:57pm Part mystery, but mainly psychological, this novel swept me off my feet with its strikingly original concept and scene detailing. The further I read, the more I started wanting things. But the problem with anticipation building is that everything can crumble if you do not end up satisfied.

Mystery submitted by Judeyblu on September 18, 2015, 9:29pm Pretty Is, Maggie Mitchell, Henry Holt, 2015, 97816277914This story put me in mind of Mary Higgins Clark, and in a good way.
Two little girls are kidnapped at 12 years old, held for three months, then released. We get all that very early.
It’s what happens to the women these girls became that forms most of the book.
Yes, there’s a mystery, too.
I ‘read’ the book on audio, and it help my interest.