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    The Blue Girl: A Novel

    By Laurie Foos

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    This surreal novel tells a familiar story of grief in a unique way through an irresistible chorus of female voices—“haunting and healing in equal measure” (Kirkus Reviews).
     
    In a small lakeside town where summer people flock to vacation, mothers bake their secrets into moon pies they feed to a silent blue girl. Their daughters have secrets too—that they can’t sleep, that they might sleep with a neighbor boy, that they know more than they let on. But when the daughters find the blue girl, everyone’s carefully held silences shake loose.
     
    Told through the alternating perspectives of three mothers and their teenage daughters “with spare prose and a keen ear . . . Foos effortlessly inserts a humanized sin-eater into the center of a complex, emotionally volatile group of families” (Kirkus Reviews).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 22, 2015
    ISBN9781566894005
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    Laurie Foos

    Laurie Foos is the author of Ex Utero, Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist, Twinship, Bingo Under the Crucifix, Before Elvis There Was Nothing, and The Giant Baby. She teaches in the low residency MFA program at Lesley University and in the low residency BFA program at Goddard College. She lives on Long Island with her husband and two children. Visit her website at www.lauriefoos.net.

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