The Fates will Find Their Way

Resumen del libro

"A dreamlike cross between The Virgin Suicides and The Lovely Bones." -Time magazine

"Chilling and touching. . . . A story about the dark matter of adolescent desire that pulls on the heart across decades. Pittard can be harrowingly wise about the melancholy process of growing up."-Ron Charles, Washington Post

"Pittard gives the secret wink to the reader, because a story is only a story, but at the same time more than a story, and that's why we love to invent and why we love to listen and to be taken in. At our peril."-Anne Beattie

Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighborhood boys she's left behind are caught forever in the heady current of her absence.

As the years pass, the mystery of her disappearance grows kaleidoscopically. A collection of rumors, divergent suspicions, and tantalizing what-ifs, Nora Lindell's story is a shadowy projection of teenage lust, friendship, reverence, and regret, captured magically in the disembodied plural voice of the boys who still long for her. Far more eager to imagine Nora's fate than to scrutinize their own, the boys sleepwalk into an adulthood of jobs, marriages, families, homes, and daughters of their own, all the while pining for a girl-and a life-that no longer exists, except in the imagination.

A masterful literary debut that shines a light into the dream-filled space between childhood and all that follows, The Fates Will Find Their Way is a story about the stories we tell ourselves-of who we once were and may someday become.

"A bold, wise, magical, and authentic novel about youthful infatuation and its legacy."-Vendela Vida