The next time you see me
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13-year-old Emily Houchens doesn't have many friends. She spends her time alone in the woods near her house - her safe place, until she finds the body of a young woman. Susanna Mitchell is searching for her sister, Ronnie, who vanished after leaving a late-night bar. The more she discovers about Ronnie's life, the more she realises that her sister began to disappear long before she went missing.
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More character study than mystery, I chose this book to fulfill the Reading Prompt “Shares my Name” - The Next Time You See Me, written by Holly Goddard Jones.
I am so glad I did. Such excellent storytelling with a cast of outsiders and outcasts in a small southern town whose stories thread together into a complex but intimate tale. Loss, heartbreak, squandered dreams - all culminating into violence and betrayal.
It opens with a missing woman and spirals from there. The author writes well- whether in the voice of a middle schooler, a tired old factory worker, a sad schoolteacher. So many good threads in here.
This book is 10 years old and it's a gem. Highly recommended.
