Heartbreaker
โ Scribed by Claudia Dey
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
The love between a daughter and her mother --and the dark secrets they keep from each other--are at the heart of this wildly imaginative novel that combines elements of The Handmaid's Tale , Stranger Things, and Twin Peaks.
**An isolated town.
The remains of a mysterious cult.
And a woman who disappears. **
It's 1985. Pony Darlene Fontaine has lived all her fifteen years in "the territory," a settlement founded decades ago by a charismatic cult leader. In this strange town run on a sinister economic resource, the women crimp their hair and wear shoulder pads, and the teenagers listen to Nazareth and Whitesnake on their Walkmans. Pony's family lives in the bungalow at the farthest edge of town, where the territory borders the rest of the wider world--a place none of the townspeople have ever been.
Except for Billie Jean Fontaine, Pony's mother. When Billie Jean arrived in the territory seventeen years prior--falling...
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