Throughout the book until the final reveal, readers do not know which of the boys died. Whatever it took to wipe my brain clean like you can with computers, pressing a button to delete the images and the words and the lies.īut perhaps what Pitches does best in this novel is to build tension and doubt. Eat the spider or stand naked on top of the shed or do math homework every day for the rest of my life. Here is one of my favorite passages in the book: She lays bare Zoe as a character, giving her the space to reveal herself in all of her remorse and conflict. Pitcher, author of My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, has returned with a beautifully written second novel. It is a story of love that is beyond the expected, first romance that is tortured but desperately real, and the wounds left behind that are impossible to heal. Zoe’s story is one of being drawn to two boys, using one against the other, and the startling result of her betrayal. Zoe slowly reveals her story, including her own role in a boy’s death and living with the aftermath of having done it. He is the only one with whom she can share her dark secret: she too killed someone. Zoe stays up late at night and writes to her pen pal, a Texas death row prisoner who murdered his wife.
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