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Learn moreBrilliant, unconventional college senior Trace Pennington has eked out an impoverished, solitary, but highly functional existence in the years since she ran away from her abusive home. But when Trace finds love with a much older man, her life is upended and she is forced to face herself and her past. After recovering a horrific, long-suppressed memory, she discovers that much of her present-day life is a carefully constructed delusion. With equal parts genius and psychosis, Trace copes with the fallout from a brutal, bizarre childhood in a heart-stopping story that explores both the terror and wonder of mental illness.
Haven Kimmel is the #1 New York TimesĀ bestsellingĀ author of A Girl Named Zippy, She Got Up Off the Couch, and Something Rising (Light and Swift). She studied English and creative writing at Ball State University and North Carolina State University and attended seminary at the Earlham School of Religion. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Haven Kimmel is the #1 New York TimesĀ bestsellingĀ author of A Girl Named Zippy, She Got Up Off the Couch, and Something Rising (Light and Swift). She studied English and creative writing at Ball State University and North Carolina State University and attended seminary at the Earlham School of Religion. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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āKimmel offers a beautifully wrought portrait of the brilliant and psychotic Trace Penningtonā¦Kimmel skillfully weaves together Traceās lucid moments and her diminishing sanity, providing a full picture of a troubled woman whose identity, past, and present are repeatedly called into question.ā
āDisturbing and haunting, Kimmelās latest novel builds slowly and ominously, ratcheting up the suspense right up to the final page and captivating the reader with Traceās frightening downward spiral.ā
ā[Kimmel] has crafted a dark and complex tale of dual personalitiesā¦The novel remains grounded in its striking prose, its unique portrayal of mental illness, and, most important, its captivating main character, Trace Pennington.ā
āHaven Kimmel not only writes like an angel, she has a gorgeous warm voice and skills any actor would envy. I canāt imagine a better narrator to present Traceās searching, terrible confusion, her incantatory understanding of the world, and the utterly harrowing truth about her past. Stunning work in every way.ā
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