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When She Was Gone
When She Was Gone | Gwendolen Gross
4 posts | 5 read | 8 to read
Tom Perotta’s Little Children meets Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones in this suspenseful and beautifully wrought story of a seventeen-year-old girl who vanishes on the eve of her departure for college, as told through the alternating perspectives of her neighbors. What happened to Linsey Hart? When the Cornell-bound teenager disappears into the steamy blue of a late-summer morning, her quiet neighborhood is left to pick apart the threads of their own lives and assumptions. Linsey’s neighbors are just ordinary people—but even ordinary people can keep terrible secrets hidden close. There’s Linsey’s mother, Abigail, whose door-to-door searching makes her social-outcast status painfully obvious; Mr. Leonard, the quiet, retired piano teacher with insomnia, who saw Linsey leave; Reeva, the queen bee of a clique of mothers, now obsessed with a secret interest; Timmy, Linsey’s lovelorn ex-boyfriend; and George, an eleven-year-old loner who is determined to find out what happened to his missing neighbor. As the days of Linsey’s absence tick by, dread and hope threaten to tear a community apart. This luminous new novel by the acclaimed author of The Orphan Sister explores coming of age in the shadows of a suburban life, and what is revealed when the light suddenly shines in. . . .
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HardcoverHarlot
When She Was Gone | Gwendolen Gross
Mehso-so

It was okay? It somehow was the least suspenseful suspense novel ever. There were some interesting characters, who I honestly cared about more than the missing girl or her family.

L_auren Same feeling here. The end was anti-climactic but I loved the neighbor and some other voices 8y
LitHousewife I felt the same way. 8y
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HardcoverHarlot
When She Was Gone | Gwendolen Gross
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Not sure how I feel about it yet. 133 pages in, and there are a lot of characters to keep track of. It's not bad, but it's not great?

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HardcoverHarlot
When She Was Gone | Gwendolen Gross
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Feeling like I want a mystery. This has some pretty low ratings on Goodreads, but I'm still excited.

Notafraidofwords Hey, you never know. You might love it! 8y
LitHousewife I finished the book, but it was just okay for me. I hope you enjoy it more than I did. 8y
LitHousewife In case you haven't read it yet, Everything She Forgot would be a good choice if this doesn't work out. 8y
L_auren Just read this one! I think I'm the only other Litsy post :) 8y
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