โ Scribed by Lili Anolik
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"Dark Rooms warrants an urgency that I haven't experienced since reading Nancy Drew in elementary school. It had me pining for more explanations, more dialogue, more, more, more, in a way that I don't tend to experience often as an adult. . . . Simply put, Anolik brilliantly strings us along--which is what makes her first novel so rewarding to read, and so upsetting to finish."--Los Angeles Review of Books
Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and fast--a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide-note confession--but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister Grace to accept the case as closed. Dropped out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and progressive private high school from which she recently graduated, Grace becomes increasingly obsessed with identifying the real killer.
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