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Marc Koralnik |
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STILL MINE
An instant national bestseller, this taut, atmospheric debut depicts the fates of one woman on the run and another who is missing as they collide in a derelict, former mining town whose eccentric residents have their own secrets to guardfor fans of Top of the Lake and The Silent Wife.
What happens if you vanish from your life and leave no story? Someone will make one up for you.
Clare is on the run. From her past, from her husband, and from her own secrets. When she turns up alone in the remote mining town of Blackmore asking about Shayna Fowles, the local girl who disappeared, everyone wants to know who Clare really is and what she's hiding. As it turns out, she's hiding a lot, including what ties her to Shayna in the first place. But everyone in this place is hiding somethingfrom Jared, Shayna's secretive ex-husband, to Charlie, the charming small-town drug pusher, to Derek, Shayna's overly involved family doctor, to Louise and Wilfred, her distraught parents.
Did Shayna flee? Was she killed? Is it possible she's still alive?
As Clare uncovers the mysteries around Shayna's disappearance, she must confront her own demons, moving us deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of lies and making us question what it is she's really running from. Twisting and electrifying, this is a get-underyour-skin thriller that will make you question what it means to lose yourself and find yourself in the most unlikely places.
AMY STUART won the 2011 Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, and was a finalist for the 2012 Vanderbilt/Exile Award. She is a recent masters' graduate from the University of British Columbia. Amy lives in Toronto with her husband and her three sons. Visit amystuart.ca.
Clare is on the run. From her past, from her husband, and from her own secrets. When she turns up alone in the remote mining town of Blackmore asking about Shayna Fowles, the local girl who disappeared, everyone wants to know who Clare really is and what she's hiding. As it turns out, she's hiding a lot, including what ties her to Shayna in the first place. But everyone in this place is hiding somethingfrom Jared, Shayna's secretive ex-husband, to Charlie, the charming small-town drug pusher, to Derek, Shayna's overly involved family doctor, to Louise and Wilfred, her distraught parents.
Did Shayna flee? Was she killed? Is it possible she's still alive?
As Clare uncovers the mysteries around Shayna's disappearance, she must confront her own demons, moving us deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of lies and making us question what it is she's really running from. Twisting and electrifying, this is a get-underyour-skin thriller that will make you question what it means to lose yourself and find yourself in the most unlikely places.
AMY STUART won the 2011 Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, and was a finalist for the 2012 Vanderbilt/Exile Award. She is a recent masters' graduate from the University of British Columbia. Amy lives in Toronto with her husband and her three sons. Visit amystuart.ca.
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