The Next Time You See Me, Holly Goddard Jones
The Next Time You See Me, Holly Goddard Jones
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The Next Time You See Me

Author: Holly Goddard Jones

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 29 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/12/2013

Synopsis

A debut novel by award-winning author Holly Goddard Jones, about the people surprisingly connected to the discovery of a dead womans body in a small town Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesnt have many friends. She finds more comfort playing make-believe in the woods near her house in Roma, Kentucky, than with her classmates, who find her strange and awkward. When she happens upon a dead body hidden in the woods one day, she decides not to tell anyone about her discoverya choice that begins to haunt her. Susanna Mitchell has always been a good girl, the dutiful daughter and wife. While her older sister Ronnie trolled bars for men and often drove home at sunrise, Susanna kept a neat house, a respectable job, and a young daughter. But when Ronnie goes missing and Susanna realizes that shes the only person in Roma who truly cares about her sisters fate, she starts to question her quiet life and its value. The Next Time You See Meis the story of how one womans disappearance exposes the ambitions, prejudices, and anxieties of a small southern town and its residents, who are all connected, sometimes in unexpected ways: Emily; Susanna; Tony, a failed baseball star turned detective, aspiring to be the countys first black sheriff; and Wyatt, a fifty-five-year-old factory worker tormented by a past he cant change and by a love he doesnt think he deserves. Their stories converge in a violent climax that reveals not just the mystery of what happened to Ronnie but all of their secret selves.

About Holly Goddard Jones

Holly Goddard Jones is the author of Girl Trouble: Stories. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House, Epoch, Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South, and elsewhere. A 2007 recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, she lives in North Carolina with her husband, Brandon, and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Delee on November 12, 2014

I really enjoyed THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME- and I almost passed it by because of the cover- Is that shallow???? Probably. Because so very often, I find if a book is not going to look pretty on my bookshelves- I pass it by...and this one is not goooood...(I finally bought it in e-book form where it do......more

Goodreads review by stefano on November 14, 2019

Poggiate il libro che state leggendo e andate a comprare questo. Ne vale la pena, davvero. Io di libri tristi ne ho letti tanti, e questo qua se la gioca alla pari con i miei cavalli di battaglia della tristezza. Uno per tutti: Le ceneri di Angela. Holly Goddard Jones è bravissima a raccontare la tri......more

Goodreads review by Ruth on August 27, 2014

This is one of those books, so beautifully written that you don't need to concentrate on the writing itself, if that makes any sense. I had no need to scroll back a few paragraphs or re-read sentences to clarify what I'd just read. I just fell head long into the story and there I stayed. The book is......more

Goodreads review by Ally on May 20, 2013

I received this book through Goodreads First Reads (and it was the first ARC I've received as a hardcover, which I appreciate!). Although I hadn't heard of Holly Goddard Jones before, I was drawn in by the Gillian Flynn recommendation--if this book was anything like Gone Girl, I wanted to read it. Wh......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on June 03, 2013

I read this book after I read "The Burgess Boys" by Elizabeth Strout. As a result, I am probably more critical than I normally would be. This is an interesting story, taking place in a small (population 10,000) town in the south. It's a murder mystery. At first, I thought I really didn't like it and......more

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