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Desire Lines: A Novel Audiobook
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about friendship and the memories that haunt us—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.
On the night of her high school graduation, Kathryn Campbell sits around a bonfire with her four closest friends, including the beautiful but erratic Jennifer. “I’ll be fine,” Jennifer says, as she walks away from the dying embers and towards the darkness of the woods. She never came back.
Ten years later, Kathryn has tried to build a life for herself, with a marriage and a career as a journalist, but she still feels the conspicuous void of Jennifer’s disappearance. When her divorce sends her reeling back to the Maine town where she grew up, she finds herself plunged into a sea of memories. With nothing left to lose, she is determined to answer one simple question: What ever happened to Jennifer Pelletier?
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“Desire Lines has the staying power of art. I hesitate to call Kline a ‘serious novelist’ for fear of obscuring her easy style and fluid metaphor making, not to mention the simple pleasures of her eventually suspenseful story—but she’s the real deal. Kline dramatizes private life, from the charged crosscurrents of broken families to the robust intimacies of sex, with a generous, knowing appreciation of human nature. But what impresses most about the author is the pulsing depth and ambiguity she brings to her sometimes maddening but lovable main character, Kathryn, who blooms into adulthood as she turns over the soil of her past and exposes the hidden turnings of the human heart.”
— Boston Globe
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“Desire Lines is that best possible literary mystery: a complex, superbly subtle novel with a tight plot that keeps one guessing right up until the end.”
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“Kline’s handling of the large cast of characters…[is] so well done that the reader will keep turning the pages.”
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“What makes this Gen X–targeted novel so satisfying is how intelligently Kline dovetails Kathryn’s challenge to find her way in life with her attempts to solve a psychologically resonant mystery.”
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“A novel involving a vanished and, of course, stunning young woman is hardly a new concept, but Christina Baker Kline artfully crafts this absorbing book, bringing equal insight to the characters of Kathryn, the protagonist, and Jennifer, the friend who disappeared ten years before on the night of their high school graduation.”
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“A taut, absorbing novel about a woman who must solve a haunting mystery in order to move on with her life…Kline’s edge-of-the-seat denouement ties up the plot threads with dexterity and also allows for a plausible future for Kathryn herself.”
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“Kline creates an intriguing and suspenseful novel of self-discovery as Kathryn confronts old friends with long-held secrets.”
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“A dark, sensual, emotionally charged, highly suspenseful thriller that probes the bleaker side of the human psyche and explores the nature of conflict, trust, passion, and obsession, this gripping story is a must-read.”
— Booklist
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About Christina Baker Kline
Christina Baker Kline was born in Cambridge, England, and was raised there and in the American South and Maine. She is the author of five novels, the coeditor of About Face: Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror, and the coauthor of The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about Living Feminism. Kline lives with her husband and three sons in Montclair, New Jersey.
About Amanda Troop
Amanda Troop is a Los Angeles–based actress with experience in film, television, and theater. She has also done extensive voice-over work for video games, films, and commercials.