The First day of Spring

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / General / Tucker, Nancy, Fiction / Tucker, Nancy
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

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"Chrissie is eight years old and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling of it made her belly fizz like soda pop. Across her neighborhood, Chrissie's playmates and their parents are tearful and terrified. But Chrissie rules the roost - she's the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free candy, and now she has a secret, thrilling power she doesn't get to experience much at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. Twenty years later, Chrissie has a new identity and a new name. As "Julia," she is working in a cafe to support herself and her six-year-old daughter, Molly. All she wants is a fresh start, but the past hasn't seemed to let her and Molly alone, and when, suddenly, their future together is threatened, Chrissie/Julia must find a new way to take matters into her own hands. Nancy Tucker leaves the reader breathless as she considers what happens when innocence and survival instincts collide. Tucker writes from professional experience in pediatric mental health, and she inhabits the voices of her young protagonists with a shocking authenticity and precision that moves the reader from sympathy to humor to horror to heartbreak and back again."--Provided by publisher.

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Read with caution submitted by zwachtel50 on June 9, 2023, 4:25pm I really enjoyed this book but it is VERY dark. Chrissie kills a boy at the age of 8 (not a spoiler, it’s literally the first line of the book), and the story bounces between her as an adult just released from a rehabilitation program and her as a young girl in the days and weeks following the event. We learn the reason she killed him, as well as get an insight on her thoughts and feelings both as a child and now as an adult. This book definitely isn’t for everyone, but if you enjoy thrillers and getting to look at the psychology behind why people do what they do, you will enjoy it.