SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZEFor fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous, a richly atmospheric debut about lost innocence and rural America...Remarkable. This novel reads like a miracle NPR Brimming with longing, with heartbreak New York Times Jude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep Valley. Cindy is Judes neighbour younger, poorer, a kid from the kind of family everyone knows will come to no good. Jude is black and Cindy is white.One summer, Jude disappears. Search parties go out but come back emptyhanded and strangely pleased. Jude thought she was better than everyone else. Look at her now. Meanwhile Cindy is performing a vanishing act of her own. She is slipping out of her old life and into someone elses. She is becoming Jude... Lyrical, sexy, humane, and just a total pleasure to read Elif Batuman, author of The IdiotOne of the most exquisitely written books Ive read in a long time. A haunting novel about craving escape so badly youre willing to erase yourself, by a writer I would follow anywhere Julie Buntin, author of Marlena

Binding: Paperback;288 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 334 g; Dimensions: 131 x 198 x 22

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