1975, Missouri. A girl goes missing. A boy sees something he shouldn't. Decades later, the reverberations of that summer are still shattering lives. Chris Whitaker's follow-up to We Begin at the End is a masterwork of interconnected storytelling that spans thirty years and asks how far one act of darkness can reach.
Clean — the emotional depth is the intensity.
Skip if you dislike:
Moods: Epic Emotional Dark Sweeping
Tropes: Missing Children Decades-Spanning Small Town Secrets Interconnected Lives
No — completely standalone.
Yes — 560 pages. Every one earned.
Yes — devastatingly so.