Tom Rachman (Get this book)
Rachman follows his best-selling debut with
the haunting tale of a young woman reassessing her turbulent past.In
2011, Tooly has washed up after a lifetime of wandering in a small Welsh
village, where she uses the last of her money to buy a used bookstore.
Twelve years earlier, in 1999, she's a vagabond 20-year-old on the
streets of New York City who talks her way into law student Duncan's
apartment by pretending it was her childhood home. Actually, her
childhood was spent traveling around Asia with her father, Paul, until,
in 1988, she's scooped up in Bangkok by her feckless mother, Sarah, and
falls in with a band of peripatetic misfits led by Venn, a coolly
manipulative con man. The overwhelming emotions here are loss and regret, as Tooly
realizes how she was alienated from her own best instincts by a
charismatic sociopath.Brilliantly structured, beautifully written and
profoundly sad.--Kirkus
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