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<p><b><br>A National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize Finalist<br>Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize<br>Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>Vogue</i>, <i>BuzzFeed</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>,<i> Esquire</i>,<i> Harper's Bazaar</i>,<i> NPR</i>, <i>NYLON</i>, <i>Huffington Post,</i></b><b><i> Kirkus Reviews</i>, </b><b><i>Barnes & Noble</i></b><br><b>Chosen for the Book of the Month Club, Nylon Book Club, and Belletrist Book Club</b><br><b>Named an Indie Next Pick and a </b><b>Barnes and Noble Discover Pick</b><br><br>The story of two girls and the wild year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades<br><br>Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat is quickly drawn into Marlena’s orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts—first drink, first cigarette, first kiss, first pill—Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try again to move on, e
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Julie Buntin; OverDrive, Inc
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781627797634
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Psychology
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (5,324 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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