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One line in an article about an organic farm catches the eponymous character’s eye in the piece he’s vetting for a magazine. Sylvia, a member of that farm, says something nefarious is going on there, but she remains elusive when he tries to follow up. When she actually disappears, he goes on a hunt that takes him to hidden corners of NYC and puts him at risk. I enjoyed this excursion into what seems so positive at the start but turns quite dark. However, I was flummoxed by one word the author (who was a fact checker for the New Yorker) used when his character touched a sheep: it isn’t fur, but wool. How did this get by him? One more mystery in a book cataloged as such, but more about mystification than blood and gore.
Lee’s husband knows nothing about her former life. She was brought up in a doomsday cult. One night when she was 12, everyone else in the cult disappeared, leaving her behind. Relatives took her in but when she came of age, she changed her name and hoped to forge a new identity. However, the trauma lingers, clouding her relationship with her husband, and she’s fiercely overprotective of her 7-month-old daughter. Mona shows up, claiming to be her sister and produces so many childhood memories that Lee believes her. Things get fraught, Mona’s unmasked, and the mystery of what happened back then is finally revealed. It was a bit of a stretch for me that she could remain under the radar for so long, but I got caught up in the weirdness and let it go.
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