An exceptional portrait, disturbing and precisely observed highly recommended. Verdict Buntin perfectly captures a burning and essential friendship with lasting consequences and that terrible moment when we make a wrong turn and can’t go back. And yet we understand Marlena’s allure she promises a bold new life while serving as both lodestar and safe haven. In other words, I saw myself split in two.” Every moment of the way, we’re screaming at Cat to pull back. But a girl, another one, remained…safe inside the library. Cat was once a good student who even attended private school, but with Marlena she can’t seem to stop herself from spinning out of control: “I saw myself get up….
When she moves to rural Michigan at age 15 with her newly divorced mother and older brother, the naïve, stumbling Cat is immediately drawn to hard-drinking, drug-taking, school-skipping, wrong-side-of-the tracks Marlena. And we know that Marlena is dead, though it takes reading through the nervy narrative to discover how she died and what that has meant for Cat. From the first page of this stunning first novel, as we meet the adult Cat, we know that she has never recovered from her teenage friendship with the daring, desperate, ultimately destructive Marlena.
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