The Red Thread: A Novel in Three Incarnations - Softcover

Townley, Roderick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416908951 ISBN 13: 9781416908951

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012

Synopsis

How do you avenge -- or forgive -- your own murder four hundred years after it happened?

Prompted by recurrent dreams, sixteen-year-old Dana Landgrave uncovers an ancient crime that has drawn the same souls together through three lifetimes.

There's nothing sinister about the girl's sunlit twenty-first-century American life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Yet, centuries ago, terrible things were done -- by someone she knows! Could it be her easygoing, easy-to-look-at boyfriend, Chase? Or her younger brother, Ben, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a school bus accident? What about Gianna, her inscrutable enemy on the yearbook staff? Or her eccentric psychotherapist, Dr. Sprague?

As Dana summons courage to reenter the past, each incarnation propels her to new discoveries -- and new suspicions -- until the threads of all three lives converge in a devastating revelation.

About this title

About the Author

Roderick Townley has written ten books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and literary criticism. He has taught in Chile and worked as an editor in New York. He now lives in Kansas with his wife, poet Wyatt Townley and their two children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416908951
• ISBN 13: 9781416908951
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304