Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try to forgive herself and move on, even as the memory of Marlena keeps her tangled in the past"-Ī National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize Finalist Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water. while Marlena's habits harden and calcify. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts. is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. About the Book "Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena.
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