Maggie Mitchell

"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"--

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Pretty Is

»Alle hielten uns für tot. Wir wurden seit fast zwei Monaten vermisst. wir waren zwölf Jahre alt. Was sonst hätten sie denken sollen?« Lois Als Lois und Carly May in das Auto eines Fremden steigen, fühlt sich zunächst alles wie ein großes Abenteuer an. Endlich gibt ihnen jemand das Gefühl, etwas ganz Besonderes zu sein. Der Mann bringt die beiden in eine abgelegene Waldhütte und lässt sie nicht aus den Augen. Langsam dämmert den Mädchen, dass noch etwas Schreckliches geschehen wird. Zwei Jahrzehnte später: Lois ist Literaturprofessorin und Autorin. Carly May schlägt sich als erfolglose Schauspielerin durch. Ein Drehbuch, das ihre Geschichte erzählt, bringt sie wieder zusammen. Ihre Geschichte ist noch nicht vorbei. »Der Roman fragt: Wovor haben wir Angst? Dieses Buch müssen Sie entdecken!« New York Daily News

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The other Girl

"[A] stunning, multilayered debut . . . . with a great deal of intelligent, beautifully written panache. . . . What a satisfying novel, with its shifting perspectives and competing stories and notion that our relationship to the truth changes with time and distance." -The New York Times A fiercely imagined fiction debut in which two young women face what happened the summer they were twelve, when a handsome stranger abducted them 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 The summer precocious Lois and pretty Carly May were twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across the country, and held in a cabin in the woods for two months by a charismatic stranger. Nearly twenty years later, Lois has become a professor, teaching British literature at a small college in upstate New York, and Carly May is an actress in Los Angeles, drinking too much and struggling to revive her career. When a movie with a shockingly familiar plot draws the two women together once more, they must face the public exposure of their secret history and confront the dark longings and unspeakable truths that haunt them still. Maggie Mitchell's Pretty Is beautifully defies ripped-from-the-headlines crime story expectations and announces the debut of a masterful new storytelling talent.

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