GOOD AS GONE

A deliciously unsettling novel, with dark atmospherics and bestseller twists by Chicago Tribune book critic Amy Gentry.

When Anna's 13-year-old daughter Julie is kidnapped at knifepoint in the middle of the night, the rest of her family splinters. Eight years later, Julie suddenly reappears as a twenty-one-year-old. At first, Anna thinks the nightmare has unhappened. Julie is home. But then Anna starts to realize that Julie’s story doesn't quite add up—she is lying to the police, skipping appointments, and sneaking around Houston with an agenda of her own. Desperate to mend her family, Anna is horrified at her own suspicions and afraid of what she might find out...but she nevertheless begins to investigate Julie's real motives for coming home. As each new piece of Julie's (or not-Julie's) difficult past emerges, Anna must face her own worst fears about her daughter's fate—and decide how far she will go to help the ruthless young woman who may not be her daughter after all. Amy Gentry has been a regular book reviewer for the Chicago Tribune since 2012, and her work has also appeared in Salon, LA Review of Books, and the Best Food Writing of 2014. Her book on Tori Amos is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press as part of the 33 1/3 music criticism series. GOOD AS GONE is her fiction debut—a deliciously unsettling novel, with dark atmospherics and bestseller twists.