Book description
'Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love, loss, and dark family secrets' Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water
It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to…
Why read it?
1 author picked Searching for Sylvie Lee as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It's a cross between family drama and thriller, and while I often read the former, I rarely read the latter. It broadened my reading horizons. I liked that it's about an immigrant family in another country--not where they are born, not where they live--so the setting broadened my mind. The key question is how well do really know our family? Our sibling? Anyhone?
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