Waiting on Wednesday #25

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly meme

 hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine

where we spotlight books we are eagerly anticipating.

When She Was Gone
by Gwendolen Gross
Publisher: Gallery Books
Publication date: March 13, 2013
Genre: Adult Fiction/Suspense
Purchase: Barnes and Noble/Amazon/Book Depository

Tom Perotta’s Little Children meets Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones in this suspenseful and beautifully wrought story of a seventeen-year-old girl who vanishes on the eve of her departure for college, as told through the alternating perspectives of her neighbors. Seventeen-year-old Linsey Hart disappears the day before she’s due to leave for college. As her neighbors piece together what they saw and what they think they know about the missing girl, their long-held secrets, prejudices, and entanglements become rudely evident. There’s Linsey’s mother, Abigail, whose door-to-door searching makes her social outcast status painfully obvious; stay-at-home mom Reeva, whose primary concern is covering up the affair she’s been having with the Starbucks barista; Mr. Leonard, a reclusive retired piano teacher—and the last person to see Linsey alive; George, an eleven year-old gifted loner who is determined to find out what happened to Linsey; and Timmy, Linsey’s ex-boyfriend, who is left grieving as he embarks on his own college career. A keenly observed portrait of a small town under duress, When She Was Gone is a searing portrayal of the bonds that hold a community together—and the secrets and lies that threaten to rip it apart.

I love mysteries and small towns, so this appeals to me. Since I loved Little Children and The Lovely Bones I imagine I will enjoy this tale. I like that it is told from alternating perspectives of the neighbors!  

White Lines
by Jennifer Banash
Publisher: Putnum
Publication date: April 4, 2013
Genre: YA Contemporary
Purchase: Barnes and Noble/Amazon/Book Depository

A gritty, atmospheric coming of age tale set in 1980s New York City Seventeen-year-old Cat is living every teenager's dream—she has her own apartment on the Lower East Side and at night she's club kid royalty, guarding the velvet rope at some of the hottest clubs in the city. The night with its crazy, frenetic, high-inducing energy—the pulsing beat of the music, the radiant, joyful people and those seductive white lines that can ease all pain—is when Cat truly lives. But her daytime, when real life occurs, is more nightmare than dream. Having spent years suffering her mother's emotional and physical abuse, and abandoned by her father, Cat is terrified and alone—unable to connect to anyone or anything. But when someone comes along who makes her want to truly live, she'll need to summon the courage to confront her demons and take control of a life already spinning dangerously out of control.
Both poignant and raw, White Lines is a gripping tale and the reader won't want to look away.

I grew up in the eighties, love New York and gritty tales. I am looking forward to this one!  

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