Eden
β Scribed by Andrea Kleine
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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A bold, page-turning novel that follows how a childhood abduction sets two sisters on very different courses
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Every other weekend, Hope and Eden--backpacks, Walkmans, and homework in hand--wait for their father to pick them up, as he always does, at a strip-mall bus stop. It's the divorce shuffle; they're used to it. Only this weekend, he's screwed up, forgotten, and their world will irrevocably change when a stranger lures them into his truck with a false story and smile.
More than twenty years later, Hope is that classic New York failure: a playwright with only one play produced long ago, newly evicted from an illegal sublet, working a humiliating temp job. Eden has long distanced herself from her family, and no one seems to know where she is. When the man who abducted them is up for parole, the girls might be able to offer testimony to keep him jailed. Hope sets out to find her sister--and to find herself--and it...
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