**Two-time Edgar Awardβwinning author Lori Roy entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale of two women battling for survival against a century's worth of hate.** On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Sim
Gone Too Long
β Scribed by Lori Roy
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Dutton
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 188 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Two-time Edgar Awardβwinning author Lori Roy entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale of two women battling for survival against a century's worth of hate.
On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia, home. Armed with skills honed while caring for an alcoholic mother, she must battle to survive the days and months ahead.
Seven years later, Imogene Coulter is burying her fatherβa Klan leader she has spent her life distancing herself fromβand trying to escape the memories his funeral evokes. But Imogene is forced to confront secrets long held by Simmonsville and her own family when, while clearing out her father's apparent hideout on the day of his funeral, she finds a child. Young and alive, in an abandoned basement, and behind a door that only locks from the outside.
As Imogene begins to uncover the truth of what happened to...
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