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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Comfort of Monstersdi Willa C Richards
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.   ) Andy5185 | Jul 9, 2023 |  Awesome premise and evocative prose. The psychic part fell flat for me though and in the end when the plot is summed up - there was not really much unravelled. But the story was engaging and Peg's character compelling. I think the parallel telling of Dahmer's victims, the glorification of serial killers, and the re-victimization of victim's families - especially when the victims are poor, black, gay, promiscuous, on drugs, what have you --- awful to contemplate. The author did a commendable job with this material and its nuances. Well-written in the main. I would definitely read this author again. Perhaps many will be disappointed in the ending - but I respected it aesthetically. Recommended for lovers of the literary mystery or character driven psychological suspense such as Tana French, Ruth Rendell, Morag Joss come to my mind. ( ) jhowell | Feb 14, 2022 | In July, 1991, Peg's sister disappears. It's not a great time to be a missing person in Milwaukee given that the media have descended on the city and the police department is busy with the Jeffrey Dahmer case. It doesn't help that the detective assigned to the case is not that interested. Almost thirty years later, Peg's mother wants to hire a psychic to find her daughter's body. Peg is hoping she can finally get someone to look at the man she knows is responsible. This novel is structured like a run-of-the-mill thriller, but there's more going on than finding out what happened. Richards is looking at how women are allowed to move through the world and which people get attention when they disappear, a topic highly relevant in these days when a missing social influencer, blonde, young and pretty, takes all the attention to the point where even the family of Gabrielle Petito point out that there are missing women who never rate a single mention. In this case, the first missing people who are ignored are the young, non-white gay men preyed upon by Dahmer, where the only people who care are family and friends. And then Peg's sister, caught in the middle of having too messy a life to matter and a police officer who isn't doing his job. Milwaukee is vividly rendered here -- it's wonderful when novels are published that aren't set in New York, London or any of the usual places. If you enjoyed Liz Moore's Long, Bright River, you'll enjoy this one. (  )1  RidgewayGirl | Oct 15, 2021 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: Set in Milwaukee during the "Dahmer summer" of 1991, A remarkable debut novel for fans of Mary Gaitskill and Gillian Flynn about two sistersâ??one who disappears, and one who is left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. The appearance of the psychic plunges Peg back to the past, to those final carefree months when she last saw Deeâ??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 difficultâ??even terrifyingâ??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' debut 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 Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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