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“Savor every page of this twisty novel”
—Cosmopolitan
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“Cinematic”
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“Atmospheric, ambitious, and filled with… intrigue, betrayal, passion, and heartbreak”—Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train
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A “thrilling Hollywood plot of murder and blackmail commingled with the steady, capacious Midwest”—New York Post
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“Lush and tender… harrowing and poignant… a love story rich in complication”
—Megan Abbott, award-winning author of Dare and Me and The Fever
About the AUTHOR
I write (mostly) novels. So far, each one has been about searching for one’s place in the world, which, when I think about it, is what I’ve been doing for most of my life. My earliest memories are of being washed with other babies in Senegal’s Casamance river, where my parents were conducting ethnographic fieldwork. I never felt lonely or afraid when we lived with the Mandinko; it was only when we returned to rural Vermont so that I could start first grade that I felt I did not belong.