Invisible Boy
Language: English
American Mystery & Suspense Fiction Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Contemporary Women Dare Fiction Fiction - General General General & Literary Fiction Madeline (Fictitious character) Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery fiction New York New York (N.Y.) New York (State) Social conflict Social conflict - New York (State) - New York Suspense
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Mar 30, 2010
Description:
SUMMARY: The smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her own weed-ridden family cemetery outside Manhattan. Determined to see that justice is served to the perpetrators, Madeline finds herself examining her own troubled personal history, and the sometimes hidden, sometimes all-too-public class and racial warfare that penetrates every level of society in the savage streets of New York City during the early 1990s. She is aided in her efforts by a colorful assemblage of friends, relatives, and new acquaintances, each one representing a separate strand of the patchwork mosaic city politicians like to brag about. The result is a gripping narrative that relates the causes and consequences of a vicious crime to the wider relationships that connect and divide us all. In INVISIBLE BOY Cornelia Read depicts, with sensitivity, eloquence, and powerful emotion, the unstable fault lines of family, friendship, and society at large.