"Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibili
Descent: novel
β Scribed by Johnston, Tim
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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