The story revolves around the disappearance of one of the girls, Nora Lindell. On Halloween, she simply disappears and never returns home. And the mystery of her is never resolved in the book. But, in a very interesting fashion, several different versions of her disappearnce are told, and as you are reading these, they become very real.
Nora becomes the symbol of the loss of innocence for these young people. Once she is gone, their youth is never the same. They spend so much time speculating on what happened to Nora, that they never really look at themselves and what they want of their life. The novel jumps back and forth in time and covers the span of about 25 years. At the end, the boys are in their mid forties, with wives and children of their own. But they still have this one tie that binds them: their obsession with Nora Lindell and what became of her.
Although at times there were too many voices in the collective "we" that this novel speaks through, I really enjoyed the writing and look forward to more from this young writer. This was Hannah Pittard's first novel.
