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but Noemi Amato knows the truth: Link was killed. He told her so himself, because he's been texting her from beyond the
grave, warning her to keep away from the forest.
Amberlyn, Link's sister, can't shake the feeling that Noemi is hiding something, and Jonas, Noemi's new housemate,
can't get past the walls that she has constructed around herself. Because Noemi has a dangerous secret even bigger than
Link's ghost ...
Link drowned in an impossible lake that only she can find. If the three don't work together to unravel the truth about what
is happening in the woods, someone else may wind up dead.
Set over the course of one heartbreaking, mystifying, and ultimately hopeful year, this remarkable debut heralds the
arrival of an incredible new voice in young adult literature.
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Release date
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781705010280
- File size: 292430 KB
- Duration: 10:09:13
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 880
- Text Difficulty: 4-5
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Reviews
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August 24, 2020
Debut author Nagamatsu blends mystery and melancholia in the Riverdale-esque story of friends grieving the strange death of 17-year-old Lincoln Miller, found drowned in a forest with no water—“the Schrödinger’s cat of drowned teenagers.” When high school junior Jonas Lake moves into Shivery, Minn.’s Lamplight Inn with his father and father’s girlfriend, Cesca, after being expelled from school, he does not expect to fall in love with Cesca’s daughter, Noemi. Artistic Noemi, haunted by Lincoln’s death and strange text messages from someone claiming to be him, explores her asexuality amid others’ proclaimed affections. Meanwhile, Lincoln’s sister, Amberlyn, falls for Noemi’s best friend, Lyle, and bully Gaetan seeks healing following abuse from his stepfather. Despite jolting moments of terror, the pacing is uneven and the characters’ path to understanding their friend’s death and the forest’s mystery feels farfetched and labyrinthine in scope. Told from alternating perspectives and interspersed with Noemi’s photographs and dream journal entries, though, Nagamatsu’s story boasts memorable descriptions (“Their mouths tasted the way raw chicken looked”) and characters with complex emotional lives, including affirming portrayals of multiple gender expressions and sexual orientations. Ages 14–up. Agent: Erica Bauman, Aevitas Creative Management.
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