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  • Off to a slow start, you wonder where the book is leading. About page 120, the message comes out. I was vaguely disappointed and stopped reading. However, I went back to finish it off and found that the last 100 pages were better than the rest combined. If you should choose to read, I recommend bein ... Continue

    Off to a slow start, you wonder where the book is leading. About page 120, the message comes out. I was vaguely disappointed and stopped reading. However, I went back to finish it off and found that the last 100 pages were better than the rest combined. If you should choose to read, I recommend being committed to finish. The ending is much better than what the beginning leads you to expect.

    

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New York City, 1965: Two Manhattan prep school students, Carole and Naomi, make a pact to lose their virginity before graduation. Eddie, a slick Upper East Side dropout, is handsome, fatally charming, and more than willing to help the girls accomplish their goal. But on one bitterly cold holiday weekend in an isolated cabin deep in the Vermont woods, a horrifying twist develops in the plan. Before the night is over, a stomach-turning secret is sealed between friends, setting in motion a series of events that will have dire and far-reaching consequences.

Sweeping across decades, moving from New York to Vermont to California and back again, Lewis tells an utterly gripping, psychologically nuanced tale of friendship between two very different women, of the life-changing burden of a secret, the lies we tell others to save ourselves, and the lies we tell ourselves when the truth is too painful to accept.

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