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So Much Pretty is a fearless first novel, announced The New York Times Book Review, for all the passion in this intense narrative, Hoffman writes with a restraint that makes poetry of pain. Set in a rural community steeped in silence and denial, So Much Pretty explores all parents' greatest fear, that their child will be hurt. But it also examines a second, equally troubling question: What if my child hurts someone else? The disappearance and murder of nineteen-year-old Wendy White is detailed through the eyes of journalist Stacy Flynn and a host of other richly drawn characters, each with their own secrets and convictions. After Wendy's body is found, Flynn's intense crusade to expose a killer draws the attention of a precocious local girl, Alice Piper, whose story intertwines with Wendy's in a spellbinding and unexpected climax.
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- Title
- So Much Pretty
- Author
- Cara Hoffman
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1451616759
- ISBN 13
- 9781451616750
When she disappeared from her rural hometown, Wendy White was a sweet, family-oriented girl, a late bloomer whod recently moved out on her own, with her first real boyfriend and a job waiting tables at the local tavern. It happens all the timea woman goes missing, a family mourns, and the case remains unsolved. Stacy Flynn is a reporter looking for her big break. She moved east from Cleveland, a city known for its violent crime, but thats the last thing she expected to cover in Haeden. This small, upstate New York town counts a dairy farm as its main employer and is home to families whove set down roots and never leftpeople who dont take kindly to outsiders. Flynn is researching the environmental impact of the dairy, and the way money flows outward like the chemical runoff, eventually poisoning those who live at the edges of its reach.
Five months after she disappeared, Wendys body is found in a ditch just off one of Haedens main roads. Suddenly, Flynn has a big story, but no one wants to talk to her. No one seems to think that Wendys killer could still be among them. A drifter, they say. Someone not from here.
Fifteen-year-old Alice Piper is an imaginative student with a genius IQ and strong ideals. The precocious, confident girl has stood out in Haeden since the day her eccentric hippie parents moved there from New York City, seeking a better life for their only child. When Alice reads Flynns passionate article in the Haeden Free Press about violence against womenabout the staggering number of women who are killed each day by people they knowshe begins to connect the dots of Wendys disappearance and death, leading her to make a choice: join the rest in turning a blind eye, or risk getting involved. As Flynn and Alice separately observe the locals failure to acknowledge a murderer in their midst, Alices fate is forever entwined with Wendys when a second crime rocks the town to its core.
Stylishly written, closely observed, and bracingly unexpected, So Much Pretty leads the reader into the treacherous psychology of denial, where the details of an event are already known, deeply and intuitively felt, but not yet admitted to, reconciled or revealed.
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Review
""So Much Pretty "is a haunting, gloomy novel that defies genre -- it is one part crime thriller, one part ambitious novel, one part prose poem. . . . [The novel] raises questions about denial, violence against women and when a citizen should speak up, even if it puts another at risk."--NPR.org
""So Much Pretty" delivers a skillful, psychologically acute tale of how violence affects a small town . . . To say more about Hoffman's constantly surprising story is to reveal too much, but the payoff is more than worth the slow-building suspense."--"Los Angeles Times"
""So Much Pretty" unravels a narrative that's rich with suspense and moral complexity. Delicately balancing two story lines, Cara Hoffman dramatizes a death and a disappearance. Along the way, we get caught up in her portraits of those who belong, those who don't, and the irreversible consequences of lives coming together. This story of violence begetting violence is a fine debut."--Lee Martin, author of "The Bright Forever," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
""So Much Pretty" is an incredible, important book . . . I think everyone should read it."--J. Courtney Sullivan, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Commencement "and "Maine"
""So Much Pretty" is certain to be talked about--not merely because it is a profound meditation on both public and private violence in small-town America, but for its captivating storytelling which draws you in on a visceral level and leaves you feeling haunted, in the best of ways."--Philipp Meyer, author of "American Rust"
""So Much Pretty" is everything I love in a novel--dark, fascinating, beautifully written, impossible to put down. It marks the beginning of what promises to be an indelible literary career for Cara Hoffman."--Lauren Grodstein, author of "A Friend of the Family "and "Reproduction is the Flaw of Love"
""So Much Pretty" is a compelling whodunit, an unnerving portrait of just what the back of nowhere looks like, and an arresting meditation on our culture's ongoing acceptance of violence against women. It's powered by both a despairing tenderness and an unflinching rage, each of which, as the novel makes heartbreakingly clear, are more than justified."--Jim Shepard, author of "You Think That's Bad "and "Like You'd Understand, Anyway"
"So Much Pretty" delivers a skillful, psychologically acute tale of how violence affects a small town . . . To say more about Hoffman's constantly surprising story is to reveal too much, but the payoff is more than worth the slow-building suspense. "Los Angeles Times""
A mixture of "The Lovely Bones" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" . . . Hoffman s narrative oscillates between various characters, carefully building suspense, depth, and new insight with every chapter. Let s hope we will be seeing more of this talented new writer. "Booklist ""
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