Binding: Paperback
Description: A New York Times Notable Book of 2020, now a Hulu Original Series!" Saint X is hypnotic. Schaitkin's characters. are so intelligent and distinctive it feels not just easy but necessary to follow them. I devoured it in a day." Oyinkan Braithwaite New York Times Book Review When you lose the person who is most essential to you who do you become? Recommended by Entertainment Weekly included in Good Morning America's 20 Books We're Excited for in 2020 & named as one of Vogue's Best Books to Read This Winter Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of February 2020, and O Magazine's 14 of the Best Books to Read This February! Hailed as a marvel of a book and brilliant and unflinching Alexis Schaitkin's stunning debut Saint X is a haunting portrait of grief obsession and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college - age sister Alison disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later Alison's body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay and two local men employees at the resort are arrested. But the evidence is slim the timeline against it and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents there is only the return home to broken lives. Years later Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth not only to find out what happened the night of Alison's death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful changeable provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive hoping to gain his trust waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth an unlikely attachment develops between them two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy. For readers of Emma Cline's The Girls and Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that culminates in an emotionally powerful ending.
Title: Saint X A Novel
Author(s): Schaitkin Alexis
Publisher: Celadon Books
Barcode: 9781250219572
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/25/2021