Lacy Eye by Jessica Treadway
Grand Central Publishing
Original Publication Date: December 2, 2014
Available in Trade Paperback March 1, 2016!
A haunting, evocative novel about a woman who might have to face the disturbing truth about her own daughter.
Hanna and Joe send their awkward daughter Dawn off to college hoping that she will finally “come into her own.” When she brings her new boyfriend, Rud, to her sister’s wedding, her parents try to suppress their troubling impressions of him for Dawn’s sake. Not long after, Hanna and Joe suffer a savage attack at home, resulting in Joe’s death and Hanna’s severe injury and memory loss.
Rud is convicted of the crime, and the community speculates that Dawn may also have been involved. When Rud wins an appeal and Dawn returns to live in the family home, Hanna resolves to recall that traumatic night so she can testify in the retrial, exonerate her daughter, and keep her husband’s murderer in jail.
But as those memories resurface, Hanna faces the question of whether she knows her own daughter-and whether she ever did.
About the Author
Photo by Michele McDonald Jessica Treadway’s story collection Please Come Back to Me received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the author of And Give You Peace, which was named as one of Booklist ‘s Top 10 Debut Novels of the Year, and the collection Absent Without Leave and Other Stories. Her stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Hudson Review, Ploughshares, and Five Points, among other literary journals. A professor at Emerson College in Boston, she lives with her husband in Lexington, Massachusetts.
I haven't heard of this one but it sounds like an interesting read!
I thought so too. I couldn't imagine this scenario. I plan to review this one very soon.
Sounds spooky and like a page turner! Thanks for hosting a giveaway!
Good luck! It does sound like the kind of book that is hard to put down.
Sounds like a family that could be in crisis.
They definitely sound like they are in the middle of a major crisis.
Sounds like an episode of Criminal Minds!
I love that show. I think that I read that this book is loosely based on a murder that was featured on 48 hours.
I really loved this one, though if I remember correctly, it took me a while to finish it. It's a great psych-thriller, and its very dark.
That is good to know, Lekeisha! I should be starting this one very soon.
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Welcome to the book blogging community! I thought that this book sounded great as well. Good luck on the giveaway!
This book intrigues me because it's a bit creepy, mysterious and sounds like there are lots of twist and turns! Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
I agree, Miranda. It looks like the right combination for a very good story. Good luck!