![]() In this haunting, atmospheric debut, Sandra Novack examines loss, loyalty, and a family in crisis. When Natalia unexpectedly returns, the struggles and tensions that have built over the summer erupt into a series of events that change the Kisches irrevocably-forcing them to piece together their complicated pasts and commitments to each other. Frank Kisch, grappling with his anger, is left to raise their girls alone, oblivious to his daughters’ struggles with both Eva, seventeen, plunges into an affair with her married high school teacher, and nine-year-old Sissy escapes to a world of imagination and storytelling that becomes so magical it pierces the reality of the everyday. Troubled by her past, headstrong Natalia Kisch has abandoned her husband and two daughters for another man. Her tight-knit blue-collar Pennsylvania neighborhood, where children roam the streets at night playing lightning tag, aboveground pools sparkle in backyards, and flowers scent the air, will never be the same.ĭown the street from Vicki’s house, another family is in crisis. ![]() ![]() ![]() The summer of 1978, ten-year-old Vicki Anderson rides her bike to the local park and goes missing. ![]()
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