No Book but the World: A Novel

No Book but the World: A Novel

â€œLush, dark and unsettling, No Book but the World haunted me for days. With great skill, Leah Hager Cohen takes us through a twisty and resonant tale about the price of secrets, the burden of family, the remnants of childhood we never leave behind.â€Â â€”Megan Abbott, author of The End of Everything and Dare Me

At the edge of a woods, on the grounds of a defunct â€œfree school,â€ Ava and her brother, Fred, shared a dreamy and seemingly idyllic childhoodâ€”a world defined largely by their imaginations and each otherâ€™s presence. Everyone is aware of Fredâ€™s oddness or vague impairment, but his parentsâ€™ fierce disapproval of labels keeps him free of evaluation or intervention, and constantly at Avaâ€™s side.

Decades later, then, when Ava learns that her brother is being held in a county jail for a shocking crime, she is frantic to piece together what actually happened. A boy is dead. But could Fred really have done what he is accused of? As she is drawn deeper into the details of the crime, Ava becomes obsessed with learning the truth, convinced that she and she alone will be able to reach her brother and explain himâ€”and his innocenceâ€”to the world.

Leah Hager Cohen brings her trademark intelligence to a psychologically gripping, richly ambiguous story that suggests we may ultimately understand one another best not with facts alone, but through our imaginations.Â
Country USA
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-04-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594486036

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-04-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594486036

No Book but the World: A Novel

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