WHAT HAPPENS TO THE GIRL LEFT BEHIND? A masked man with a gun enters a sandwich shop in broad daylight & Meredith Oliver suddenly finds herself ordered to the filthy floor where she cowers face to face with her nemesis Lisa Bellow the most popular girl in her class The minutes tick inexorably by & Meredith lurches between comforting the sobbing Lisa & imagining her own impending death Then the man orders Lisa Bellow to stand & come with him leaving Meredith behind After Lisa's abduction Meredith spends most days in her room As the community stages vigils & searches Claire Meredith's mother is torn between relief that her daughter is alive & helplessness over her inability to protect or even comfort her child Her daughter is here but not How can life ever move forward again? The Fall of Lisa Bellow is edgy & original a hair-raising exploration of the ripple effects of an unthinkable crime for readers who enjoyed Everything I Never Told You & Room Praise for Susan Perabo's short stories Explores the very human question
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- of what it really means to be afraid' Elizabeth Strout bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton on The Broken Places Darkly beautiful stories about love & loss & every gradation between Each one is suffused with astonishing wit & tenderness Well worth the wait!' Jenny Offill New York Times bestselling author of Dept of Speculation on Who I Was Supposed to Be There's only one way to read Susan Perabo & that's breathlessly Each story in Who I Was Supposed to Be crackles with narrative electricity & every one made me want to stand & cheer' Richard Russo