{"product_id":"9781451684742","title":"When She Was Gone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Perotta’s \u003ci\u003eLittle Children \u003c\/i\u003emeets Alice Sebold’s \u003ci\u003eThe Lovely Bones \u003c\/i\u003ein this suspenseful and beautifully wrought story of a seventeen-year-old girl who vanishes on the eve of her departure for college, as told through the alternating perspectives of her neighbors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ehat happened to Linsey Hart? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhen the Cornell-bound teenager disappears into the steamy blue of a late-summer morning, her quiet neighborhood is left to pick apart the threads of their own lives and assumptions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinsey’s neighbors are just ordinary people—but even ordinary people can keep terrible secrets hidden close. There’s Linsey’s mother, Abigail, whose door-to-door searching makes her social-outcast status painfully obvious; Mr. Leonard, the quiet, retired piano teacher with insomnia, who saw Linsey leave; Reeva, the queen bee of a clique of mothers, now obsessed with a secret interest; Timmy, Linsey’s lovelorn ex-boyfriend; and George, an eleven-year-old loner who is determined to find out what happened to his missing neighbor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the days of Linsey’s absence tick by, dread and hope threaten to tear a community apart. This luminous new novel by the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Orphan Sister \u003c\/i\u003eexplores coming of age in the shadows of a suburban life, and what is revealed when the light suddenly shines in. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48409177850096,"sku":"9781451684742","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781451684742_p0.jpg?v=1768409185","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781451684742","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}