The Incident on the Bridge
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Publisher Description
From National Book Award nominee Laura McNeal comes a gripping, tautly-told novel that is at once hopeful and harrowing. Perfect for fans of We Were Liars and Bone Gap.
When Thisbe Locke is last seen standing on the edge of the Coronado Bridge, it looks like there is only one thing to call it. But her sister Ted is not convinced. Despite the witnesses and the police reports and the divers and the fact that she was heartbroken about the way things ended with Clay and how she humiliated herself at that party, Thisbe isn't the type of person to end up just an "incident."
While everyone in town prepares to mourn the loss (some more than others), Ted and Fen, the new kid in town, set out to put the pieces together and find her sister.
But if Thisbe didn't jump, what happened up on that bridge?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
California's sun and sand harbor dark secrets in this creepy thriller from National Book Award finalist McNeal (Dark Water). When 17-year-old Thisbe Locke disappears, her family is mystified. Thisbe is a "good girl" studious, not preoccupied with boys, and determined to get into a good college. Unfortunately, Clay Moorehead, a boy known for treating girls as disposable commodities, sets his sights on her, leaving her fortune cookies with cute messages; after he gets what he wants, he drops her. Humiliated and sad, Thisbe lets her grades suffer and becomes withdrawn. In the wake of her disappearance, there are whispers of suicide, but Thisbe's younger sister, Ted, knows better, and undertakes her own search. McNeal tells this absorbing story from multiple perspectives Thisbe, her family, law enforcement, Clay and his best friend Jerome, and even a possible witness resulting in fully realized characters with different motivations and goals. While what happens to Thisbe is revealed almost immediately, McNeal writes with a mature hand, expert pacing, and an immediacy that ensures readers will be engrossed. Ages 12 up.
