Marilou Is Everywhere Av Sarah Elaine Smith

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE<br><br>For fans of <i>Where the Crawdads Sing </i>and <i>On Earth We''re Briefly Gorgeous, </i>a richly atmospheric debut about lost innocence and rural America...<br><br></b><b>''Remarkable. </b><b>This novel reads like a miracle'' <i>NPR</i></b><br><b><br>''Brimming with longing, with heartbreak'' <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>Jude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep Valley. Cindy is Jude''s neighbour - younger, poorer, a kid from the kind of family everyone knows will come to no good. Jude is black and Cindy is white.<br><br>One summer, Jude disappears. Search parties go out but come back empty-handed and strangely pleased. Jude thought she was better than everyone else. Look at her now. Meanwhile Cindy is performing a vanishing act of her own. She is slipping out of her old life and into someone else''s. She is becoming Jude... <br><br><b>''Lyrical, sexy, humane, and just a total pleasure to read'' Elif Batuman, author