Nothing Can Hurt You

Nothing Can Hurt You
Nicola Maye Goldberg
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 240pg
8 Jul 2021 UK
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9781526619471
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As recommended by The High Low' Gripping, sharp and sultry - I couldn' t put it down' Pandora Sykes ' Captivating, serpentine and affecting . . . It subverts the tropes of the "dead girl" genre in ways that impart its female characters with a dark majesty and mystery all their own' Megan AbbottThe Virgin Suicides meets Little Fires Everywhere: inspired by a true story, this haunting novel pieces together a chorus of voices to explore the aftermath of a college student' s death. On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts college in upstate New York. Her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, confessed, only to be acquitted following a plea of temporary insanity. In the wake of this senseless act of violence, the case comes to haunt a strange and surprising network of community members, from the young woman who discovers Sara' s body to the junior reporter who senses its connection to convicted local serial killer John Logan. As the years pass, others search for retribution or explanation, including Sara' s half-sister who, stifled by her family' s silence about Blake, poses as a babysitter and seeks out her own form of justice, and the teenager Sara used to babysit, who begins writing to Logan as part of a class project.
Captivating, serpentine and affecting, Nicola Maye Goldberg' s Nothing Can Hurt You subverts the tropes of the "dead girl" genre in ways that impart its female characters with a dark majesty and mystery all their own -- Megan Abbott I read this in one sitting. Fascinating and unique -- Bella Mackie, author of ' Jog On' [An] alarming, transfixing tale told from several different vantage points . . . A more literary Gone Girl for the new decade * US Vogue * Gripping, sharp and sultry - I couldn' t put it down -- Pandora Sykes Like a gothic Olive Kitteridge mixed with Gillian Flynn . . . The cumulative effect of this book is masterful, a small-scale renovation of a seemingly exhausted genre * US Vogue, ' Best books to read this summer' * An intoxicating, lyrical and honest journey into the traumatic murder of a young woman and its reverberating anguish . . . I could not stop reading this book, and was haunted by it long after I finished -- Allie Rowbottom, author of ' Jell-O Girls' Fascinating, intimate and clever; it reminded me of Three Women. Reading it was like playing with Russian dolls, but in reverse -- Tomasz Jedrowski, author of ' Swimming in the Dark' I read the first page and couldn' t stop. So original -- Julie Mayhew, author of ' Impossible Causes' Tender, brutal, beautiful. This book haunts me -- Kirsty Logan, author of ' The Gracekeepers' A melancholy thing about the stories and images and people that haunt, rather than another post-mortem on a pretty dead girl. I loved it -- Hayley Campbell A daring, electric debut . . . This novel feels wholly new - Goldberg elegantly destroys all the "dead girl" tropes we' ve tired of, and in doing so reinvents the thriller for a new generation - her heroines, like her voice, are wise, darkly funny and often startlingly beautiful -- Rebecca Godfrey, author of ' Under the Bridge' Nicola Maye Goldberg articulates a new kind of darkness within the female psyche - one that makes this book pulse forth with danger and suspense. Between the unexpected turns and the sharp sentences, it' s nearly impossible to stop reading -- Chelsea Hodson, author of ' Tonight I' m Someone Else' Nothing Can Hurt You is smart and human and true, simultaneously frightening and tender. Goldberg has written a gripping and tremendously searing book, one that will stay with me for a long time in ways I can' t yet entirely imagine -- Leslie Jamison The pleasure of falling into Goldberg' s taut thriller is in some ways a trap, a literary trompe l' oeil that momentarily screens us from what Nothing Can Hurt You is actually about. Investigating the relationships between women, voyeurism and violence, Goldberg elegantly excavates the ways in which crime simultaneously repulses and compels us, she reminds us why we are forever obsessed with looking at things that we are not supposed to see -- Alissa Bennett Goldberg' s razor-sharp, intricately constructed tale, with its varied voices, will leave few readers unmoved. Fans of literary thrillers will relish this incisive account of murder and its aftermath * Publishers Weekly *
Nicole Maye Goldberg is a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University. She is the author of Other Women and The Doll Factory. Her work has appeared in CrimeReads, The Quietus, Queen Mob' s Teahouse, Winter Tangerine, among others. She lives in New York City.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781526619471
Published: 8 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Raven Books
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Weight: 172g
Pages: 240

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