Pretty Is P/B

by Maggie Mitchell

ISBN: 9781409152682

Published: 2016-04-21

A fiercely imagined fiction debut in which two young women face what happened the summer they were twelve, when a handsome stranger abducted them "Everyone thought we were dead. We were missing for nearly two months; we were twelve. What else could they think? -"Lois "It's always been hard to talk about what happened without sounding all melodramatic. . . . Actually, I haven't mentioned it for years, not to a goddamned person. "-Carly May The summer precocious Lois and pretty Carly May were twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across the country, and held in a cabin in the woods for two months by a charismatic stranger. Nearly twenty years later, Lois has become a professor, teaching British literature at a small college in upstate New York, and Carly May is an actress in Los Angeles, drinking too much and struggling to revive her career. When a movie with a shockingly familiar plot draws the two women together once more, they must face the public exposure of their secret...