false 126807 11 Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine some of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric place of birth in our culture. In The Buffalo Soldier, he introduced us to one of contemporary literature’s most beloved foster children. And in Before You Know Kindness, he plumbed animal rights, gun control, and what it means to be a parent. Chris Bohjalian’s riveting fiction keeps us awake deep into the night. As The New York Times has said, “Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian’s grace and power.” Now he is back with an ambitious new novel that travels between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century. When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won’t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel discovers that he was telling the truth: before he was homeless, Bobbie Crocker was a successful photographer who had indeed worked with such legends as Chuck Berry, Robert Frost, and Eartha Kitt. As Laurel’s fascination with Bobbie’s former life begins to merge into obsession, she becomes convinced that some of his photographs reveal a deeply hidden, dark family secret. Her search for the truth will lead her further from her old life—and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her. In this spellbinding literary thriller, rich with complex and compelling characters—including Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan—Chris Bohjalian takes readers on his most intriguing, most haunting, and most unforgettable journey yet. 122117 13 2 2007 The Double Bind total:5188|5:18|4:50|3:52|2:16|1:5| 5188 18286 6885 1501 0 20 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 19:47:54 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 20:45:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 17 false true Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 09 20:32:13 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 11:45:56 -0700 2008
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I'm not interested in the details of women being brutalized o...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 25 11:36:40 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 05 05:10:38 -0700 2008 The Great Gatsby, but set it today, what would it look like? What archetypes would you pick to represent the lost, lonely people? The man who tries to live the American dream but at the end finds himself staring at the light he can never reach? ...more...]]> 1 3 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 14 11:04:46 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 11:10:59 -0800 2007 Turns out there was a reason f...more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 06:03:58 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 13:47:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 16:21:03 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 11:03:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false true Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 13:20:57 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 11:54:58 -0700 2008
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