Marlena
Buntin, Julie2017
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Everything about 15-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbour, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blonde hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while 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 to forgive herself and move on, even as the memory of Marlena keeps her tangled in the past.
Main title:
Marlena / Julie Buntin.
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Imprint:
London : Picador, 2017.London : Picador, 2017.
Collation:
274 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Henry Holt and Company.
ISBN:
9781509844128 (hbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1752536