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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
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Publisher's Summary
"We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song, and when one came back, she wasn't the one we were trying to recall to begin with."
Tikka Malloy was 11 and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992, living in an Australian suburb with her sister and their three best friends. The TV news in the background chattered with debate about the exoneration of Lindy ("dingo took my baby") Chamberlain. That summer was when the Van Apfel sisters, Ruth, Hannah, and the beautiful Cordelia, mysteriously disappeared. Did they just run - far away from their harsh, evangelical parents - or were they taken? While the search for the girls united the small community, the mystery of their disappearance was never solved, and Tikka and her older sister, Laura, have been haunted ever since by the loss of their friends and playmates.
Now, years later, Tikka has returned home to try to make sense of that strange moment in time, of the summer that left her frozen in the past, of the girls that she never forgot.
Part mystery, part darkly comic coming-of-age story, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone is a stunning debut - with a dark, shimmering absence at its heart.
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- 07-05-19
Gripping
Suspenseful, multi-layered. Don't expect your typical neat ending wrapped up with a bow. This will leave you to come to your own conclusions.
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