Dark Rooms A Novel
Dark Rooms A Novel by Lili Anolik is a reprint edition published by HarperCollins on March 29, 2016, featuring 352 pages in English. This debut novel unfolds in the exclusive and claustrophobic environment of a New England prep school, where the murder of sixteen-year-old Nica Baker—beautiful, wild, and enigmatic—sets the narrative in motion. While the crime appears to be solved with a confession from a lonely classmate, Nica’s older sister, Grace, struggles to accept this resolution, prompting her to delve deeper into the mystery.
Readers will find a compelling exploration of obsession and the quest for truth as Grace drops out of college to work at her former high school in Hartford, Connecticut. Her determination to uncover the real killer drives the plot, intertwining themes of suspense and coming of age. The novel captures the tension and glamour of its setting while presenting a complex narrative that reflects on memory and instinct.
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The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school.
Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly—a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession—but memory and instinct won’t allow Nica’s older sister, Grace, to accept the case as closed.
Dropping out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and progressive private high school in Hartford, Connecticut, from which she recently graduated, Grace becomes increasingly obsessed with identifying and punishing the real killer.
Compulsively readable, Lili Anolik’s debut novel combines the verbal dexterity of Marisha Pessl’s Special Topic in Calamity Physics and the haunting atmospherics and hairpin plot twists of Megan Abbott’s Dare Me.
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