Dark Rooms A Novel

Dark Rooms A Novel by Lili Anolik is a debut work published by HarperCollins on March 3, 2015. This 336-page novel is written in English and delves into the intricate and suspenseful world of an exclusive New England prep school, where the murder of a sixteen-year-old girl named Nica Baker sets off a chain of events that challenges the boundaries of memory and truth.
Readers will find a gripping narrative that follows Nica’s older sister, Grace, as she grapples with the aftermath of her sister’s death. Despite the case being seemingly solved, Grace becomes increasingly consumed by the need to uncover the real killer, leading her to drop out of college and return to her former school. The story intertwines themes of murder, obsession, and the complexities of coming of age, all while maintaining a noir atmosphere that enhances the suspenseful elements of the plot.
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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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