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When she was goneGwendolen Gross

When she was gone

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Just before she’s supposed to start her freshman year at college, Linsey Hart goes missing. Her absence rocks the insular commuter community, whose hypocritical residents publicly wonder how such a thing could happen, while privately disdaining the people and events at the center of Linsey’s life. Her neighbor, Mr. Leonard, muses about Linsey’s disappearance as he plays Rachmaninoff nocturnes while wearing his deceased mother’s evening gown. George, an 11-year-old social misfit, surreptitiously photographs the town’s denizens, searching for clues as to Linsey’s whereabouts. Randy, middle-aged…

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  • Other · English · 2012
    Gallery Books · 277 pages · 9781451684742
Missing personsFictionNeighborhoodsSecretsFamily lifePrejudicesMissing persons, fictionFiction, general