The Longings of Wayward Girls

The dark side of a seemingly perfect Connecticut suburb comes to light when one woman's long-buried secrets refuse to stay in the past, in this engrossing debut novel of psychological suspense. It's an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child on the edge of adolescence. It seems like July and August will pass lazily by, just as they have every year before. But one day, Sadie and her best friend play a seemingly harmless prank on a neighborhood girl. Soon after, that same little girl disappears from a backyard barbecue--and she is never seen again. Twenty years pass, and Sadie is still living in the same quiet suburb. She's married to a good man, has two beautiful children, and seems to have put her past behind her. But when a boy from her old neighborhood returns to town, the nightmares of that summer will begin to resurface, and its unsolved mysteries will finally become clear.

Author: Karen Brown
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 07/02/2013
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.23w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781476724911

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/15/2013 pg. 16
Library Journal 06/15/2013 pg. 80
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2013
Publishers Weekly 08/12/2013

About the Author
Brown, Karen: - Karen Brown is the author ofLittle Sinners and Other Stories, which was named a Best Book of 2012 by Publishers Weekly, and Pins and Needles: Stories, which was the recipient of AWPs Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has beenfeatured inThe PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, and Good Housekeeping. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of South Florida.