ISBN: 9780063053021
Editorial: Harper
Autor: Richards, Willa C
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 400
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Amazon.com ReviewAn Amazon Best Book of July 2021: The Comfort of Monsters is an astonishing debut with a heartbreaking double lens: one on a young girl whose disappearance was overshadowed by a monster, the other on the sister she left behind. Dee McBride disappeared from her life in Milwaukee during the summer of 1991, when the city’s attention was focused on the horrors being discovered in Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment. Almost thirty years later it’s a cold case that is just getting colder. For Dee’s dying mother though, time is running out, and she’s willing to pay a psychic for answers if there are any to be had. Meanwhile, Dee’s sister Peg struggles to keep straight her recollections of the months leading up to Dee’s disappearance—were there signs or clues she missed? An agonizing thriller centered on a missing woman, and a shattering portrait of grief, loss, and fractured memory, The Comfort of Monsters is unforgettable. —Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Book Review"A riveting page-turner that begs to be read quickly, compulsively. But page by page, this electrifying debut by Willa Richards weaves an increasingly complicated and dark tale of guilt, fury, and the danger of building stories on that shakiest of foundations, memory." —Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of ValentineSet in Milwaukee during the “Dahmer summer” of 1991, a remarkable debut novel for fans of Mary Gaitskill and Gillian Flynn about two sisters—one who disappears, and one who is left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath.In the summer of 1991, a teenage girl named Dee McBride vanished in the city of Milwaukee. Nearly thirty years later, her sister, Peg, is still haunted by her sister's disappearance. Their mother, on her deathbed, is desperate to find out what happened to Dee so the family hires a psychic to help find Dee’s body and bring them some semblance of peace.The appearance of the psychic plunges Peg back to the past, to those final carefree months when she last saw Dee—the summer the Journal Sentinel called “the deadliest . . . in the history of Milwaukee.” Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s heinous crimes dominated the headlines and overwhelmed local law enforcement. The disappearance of one girl was easily overlooked.Peg’s hazy recollections are far from easy for her to interpret, assess, or even keep clear in her mind. And now digging deep into her memory raises doubts and difficult—even terrifying—questions. Was there anything Peg could have done to prevent Dee’s disappearance? Who was really to blame for the family's loss? How often are our memories altered by the very act of voicing them? And what does it mean to bear witness in a world where even our own stories are inherently suspect?A heartbreaking page-turner, Willa C. Richards’s novel is the story of a broken family looking for answers in the face of the unknown, and asks us to reconsider the power and truth of memory.Review"On its face, The Comfort of Monsters is a riveting page-turner that begs to be read quickly, compulsively. But page by page, this electrifying debut by Willa Richards weaves an increasingly complicated and dark tale of guilt, fury, and the danger of building stories on that shakiest of foundations, memory. Every sentence is a delight in this taut and thrilling debut by Willa Richards." — Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of Valentine"The Comfort of Monsters is shadowed by crime but cares more about consequence--it pairs the pulse-quickening pleasures of a murder mystery with a probing portrait of loss. Willa C. Richards's unflinching debut picks apart a tangled knot of violence, shame, secrecy, lust, and fearsome love. A dark, elegiac examination of sisterhood that's impossible to forget." — Robin Wasserman, author of Girls on Fire"The Comfort of Monsters captivates with a cold case, and becomes an unflinching, unapologetic story of sexuality, victimhood, and the dangerous pull of memory. Richards expo
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