![]() ![]() Publisher: William Morrow, 341 pages, $25.99. Rebecca Kanner is the author of “Sinners and the Sea” and “Esther.” She teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. “The Lost Girls” contains echoes of Kate Atkinson’s “Case Histories” and is just as haunting. Heather Young’s debut is a novel of quiet intensity that builds to a terrifying climax. Both voices are authentic and elegantly wrought. Lucy’s sections are a written account of what happened in 1935, which she has left in a notebook for Justine. From here, the narrative alternates between Justine and Lucy. One of the two sisters who remained at the home was Lucy, the great-aunt who eventually left the house to Justine. The Lost Girls Books Showing 1-50 of 118 The Lost Girls (Hardcover) by Heather Young (Goodreads Author) (shelved 4 times as the-lost-girls) avg rating 3.87 14,669 ratings published 2016 Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition) by A.K. Justine arrives to find the house in disrepair - a disrepair that reflects the emotional lives of its former longtime inhabitants. The house is the site of a decades-old mystery that devastated her family - in 1935, a little girl vanished and her father committed suicide, leaving behind his wife and two more daughters. The next day she flees with her daughters to the northern Minnesota lake house that was left to her by a great-aunt. When she comes back to the living room, he’s standing in the doorway, calmly, ominously watching her. She futilely checks for him in the bedroom. ![]() Her live-in boyfriend’s bag is sitting in the hallway, but her boyfriend himself isn’t in sight. There’s no sign of forced entry, and nothing is broken. In an early scene of “The Lost Girls,” Justine arrives home to an unsettling break-in. ![]()
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