So Much Pretty, Cara Hoffman
So Much Pretty, Cara Hoffman
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So Much Pretty

Author: Cara Hoffman

Narrator: Aimee Bruneau

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/15/2011

Synopsis

The Pipers are a family built on optimism. Claire and Gene moved with their precocious, beguiling daughter Alice to Haeden, New York for a fresh start. In doing so, they unwittingly re-write the story of her life. Wendy White has strong roots in Haeden, a late-blooming young woman, mindful of family and home. Her story has a beginning and an end, but is missing the most important piece - the middle. What happened to Wendy White? Stacey Flynn is a reporter, both a seeker and a teller of stories. It is gritty, relentless and ultimately reckless Flynn who will chronicle Wendy White's existence from all the fragments she can find, and forge a path toward the end. But only we will ever know the whole story.

About Cara Hoffman

Cara Hoffman is the author of three critically acclaimed novels for adults: Running (a New York Times Editor's Choice), Be Safe I Love You (nominated for a Folio Prize), and So Much Pretty (a New Yorker Books Pick and New York Times Best Suspense Novel of 2011). She is also the author of the popular middle grade novel Bernard Pepperlin (a Junior Library Guild Selection). She has written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Paris Review, Bookforum, and National Public Radio, among others, and has been a visiting writer at University of Oxford. She lives in Manhattan and teaches at the Stonecoast MFA program at University of Southern Maine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on May 05, 2019

maggie-approved! thank goodness for paul tremblay. i went to a reading last week to celebrate his wonderful A Head Full of Ghosts and to bask in the glory of hearing him read aloud as the "me-character." also on the bill was cara hoffman, who read a bit from Be Safe I Love You and then had a litt......more

Goodreads review by Julia on June 14, 2012

There's no way around it--this is a horrifying book. It came to me as a loan from Marianne Pita, the Chair of the English department at Bronx Community College, who was duly impressed by the talent of author Cara Hoffman, who is a part-time member of our department. But, while I share Marianne's adm......more

Goodreads review by Jen on October 26, 2014

I don't know how this book got through the editing process. Didn't anyone bother to tell Cara Hoffman that multiple narrators in a shifting timeline is a bad idea? Didn't her editor tell her that her didactic prose and endless direct characterizations are cheap shot short cuts for doing the real wor......more

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