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'Hypnotic, delivering acute social commentary on everything from class and race to familial bonds and community . . . I devoured Saint X in a day.' Oyinkan Braithwaite (author of My Sister, the Serial Killer), New York Times
Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes…
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Claire is seven years old when her college-age sister is found dead at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X.
Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with a man originally suspected of murdering her sister. This book is not your standard Thriller; the cast of characters is large and the plot complex, but the author pulls it off.
It’s also not a book to keep you up all night. Try three or four nights. The writing is brilliant in ways not often seen in…
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