DESCENT
Descent
A family is transformed after a teenage daughter disappears during a morning run.
Read more →Author of Descent, The Current, Distant Sons, Irish Girl, and Never So Green.
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A literary mystery about disappearance, memory, family, and the buried violence of a small community.
View bibliography →A family is transformed after a teenage daughter disappears during a morning run.
Read more →A prize-winning collection of stories exploring ordinary lives and complicated emotional terrain.
Read more →A suspenseful literary mystery shaped by missing boys, old secrets, and intersecting lives.
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