![]() The story unfolds from Maddie's point of view as well as that of Cleo's ghost, who seems to be watching from behind the scenes, commenting acerbically on Maddie's nosing around like a bull in a china shop after getting a job at one of the city papers. Sherwood's body was found in a lake in a city park months after she disappeared, and while no one else seems to care enough to investigate, Maddie becomes obsessed-partly due to certain similarities she perceives between her life and Cleo's, partly due to her faith in her own detective skills. In her most ambitious work to date, Lippman ( Sunburn, 2018, etc.) tells the story of Maddie Schwartz, an attractive 37-year-old Jewish housewife who abruptly leaves her husband and son to pursue a long-held ambition to be a journalist, and Cleo Sherwood, an African-American cocktail waitress about whom little is known. ![]() ![]() ![]() Baltimore in the 1960s is the setting for this historical fiction about a real-life unsolved drowning. ![]()
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