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<p>Lydia Pasternak is a decade out of high school, but inside she's still Danny Pasternak’s little sister, the bookish teenager who lived in her popular older brother's shadow until the night he disappeared. Though she has spent her adult life trying to forget that year she turned sixteen, the memory of her brother’s vanishing still haunts her: her secret pleasure at the attention she received as the missing football hero’s sister, her ambivalence about his possible fate, her emergence as an individual in his absence. As her parents went off the rails, she went to her first keg parties and befriended the school's elite crowd—all the while fervidly helping the attractive private investigator her family hired to search for clues to Danny's whereabouts. The shocking end to that trail of clues—an end that Lydia never prepared herself for—left a wound that has never healed, even now as she prepares to return to her hometown after many years. <br><br>An authentic dissection of public and private grief, <i>The Local News</i> is a moving, memorable debut that explores the complicated bond between siblings and how our brothers and sisters define who we are.</p>
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Fifteen year old Lydia Pasternak--smart, detached, and overshadowed by her larger-than life brute of a sports star brother--is the center of this fine novel. Gershow creates ...more...]]>
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