Suspenseful and cinematic, Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider’s hunger to belong. Agent: Anne Hawkins, John Hawkins & Assoc. BITTERSWEET by MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE-Excerpt - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Not every revelation feels earned, but on balance, Beverly-Whittemore delivers a twisty, rewarding tale of friendship, secrets, and childhood trauma. Saskia’s evocative, elegiac narration cycles rapidly between past and present, escalating pace and imparting suspense while developing the keenly rendered characters and their thorny histories. Twenty-five years later, reclusive Saskia is sequestered inside her Connecticut home when Xavier comes knocking: someone has been writing to Home’s former teen residents, threatening to tell the world about the crime they committed unless all five of them return. Saskia quickly falls under the thrall of the commune’s charismatic leader and finds a sense of belonging she’d do anything to preserve. While Xavier’s mother is traveling, his father, an eccentric artist, decides that he and the kids should summer in Maine at a lakeside commune dubbed Home. Bittersweet: A Novel Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Crown Publishers, 2014 - Bildungsromans- 385 pages 34Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. After 12-year-old Saskia’s father goes to prison for her little brother’s murder and her mother decamps to Mexico in this haunting psychological thriller from bestseller Beverly-Whittemore ( June), Saskia goes to live in a Manhattan loft with her friend Xavier.
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