![]() ![]() In her young adult debut, Pessl ( Night Film, 2013, etc.) manages to keep her first-person narrative moving forward while her characters are stuck in time. They will remain in this limbo until the point when they decide which one of them may return to the world of the living. A mysterious man who calls himself the Keeper tells Beatrice, Kipling, Whitley, Cannon, and Martha that they are trapped in a Groundhog Day–like existence called Neverworld Wake. Heading back to the mansion where they’re staying following a punk-rock concert in Newport, Rhode Island, they nearly collide with a tow truck and barrel off the road into a ditch, setting up a strange journey into the unknown. Five close friends-who used to be six until one of them died-are together again a year after their graduation from boarding school. ![]()
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