The Longings of Wayward Girls

Name: The Longings of Wayward Girls
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Karen Brown
ISBN: 9781452686745

Author: Karen Brown

Narrator: Arielle DeLisle

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/30/2013

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Psychological

Synopsis

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.

About Karen Brown

Karen Brown is the author of Little 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 AWP's Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has been featured in The 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. The Longings of Wayward Girls is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trudi

There's a buzz book for the summer - you might have heard of it already -- The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. Featuring a time traveling serial killer, it has huge potential for a beach read thriller, but I don't know. Despite enjoying the main character, I felt it was missing something and my over......more

Goodreads review by R.B.

In this novel, Karen Brown meditates on the suffering that goes along with love and lust. This is her debut as a novelist, but Publishers Weekly named her Little Sinners and Other Stories as a Best Book of 2012. Set in an middle class suburb near Hartford, Connecticut, The Longings of Wayward Girls i......more

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-Hiatus until January)

Clearing off the old Netgalley ARCs that I downloaded before I knew how they would pile up. This one might have been good had I read it back when it was written. Since then, the psychological thriller/missing person genre has exploded. And with much more compelling and well-written narratives. I appr......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

This book made me uncomfortable for long stretches. The discomfort came from the terrible decisions of some of the characters. I could hardly bear to read about what they were doing, and at the same time, I couldn't bear to put the book down, in the hope that they would come to their senses soon. Wh......more