Locke and Jean have orchestrated an elaborate plan to lie
The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • In a dazzling ode to human inventiveness and the desire for meaning
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Don’t find evil so attractive
Boys In the Valley by Philip Fracassi (w/ signed bookplate) Cozy Locke and Jean have orchestratedThe Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies in this brilliant coming of age tale from award winning author Philip Fracassi St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Early twentieth century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future a family. Then, late