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The Lost Girls by Heather Young5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Her only neighbor is a strange old man who seems to know more about the summer of 1935 than he’s telling. ![]() The dark, silent lake is isolated and eerie. But the long Minnesota winter is just beginning. For Justine, the lake house offers freedom and stability-a way to escape her manipulative boyfriend and give her daughters the home she never had. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook that she leaves, along with the house, to the only person who might care: her grandniece, Justine. Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Her disappearance destroys the family-her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. “The delicacy of writing elevates the drama and gives her two central characters depth and backbone… For all the beauty of Young’s writing, her novel is a dark one.And the murder mystery that drives it is as shocking as anything you’re likely to read for a good long while.”Ī stunning novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, the meaning of salvation, and the sacrifices we make for those we love, told in the voices of two unforgettable women linked by a decades-old family mystery at a picturesque lake house. ![]()
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