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Title: The Fates Will Find Their Way

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Hannah Pittard

Narrator: Scott Shepherd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-11

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighborhood boys she's left behind are caught forever in the heady current of her absence.

As the days and years pile up, the mystery of her disappearance grows kaleidoscopically.

A collection of rumors, divergent suspicions, and tantalizing what-ifs, Nora Lindell's story is a shadowy projection of teenage lust, friendship, reverence, and regret, captured magically in the disembodied plural voice of the boys who still long for her.

Told in haunting, percussive prose, Hannah Pittard's beautifully crafted novel tracks the emotional progress of the sister Nora left behind, the other families in their leafy suburban enclave, and the individual fates of the boys in her thrall. Far more eager to imagine Nora's fate than to scrutinize their own, the boys sleepwalk into an adulthood of jobs, marriages, families, homes, and daughters of their own, all the while pining for a girl - and a life - that no longer exists, except in the imagination.

A masterful literary debut that shines a light into the dream-filled space between childhood and all that follows, The Fates Will Find Their Way is a story about the stories we tell ourselves - who we once were and may someday become.

Editorial Reviews:

A missing child has a profound impact on the family and the town she leaves behind and in The Fates Will Find Their Way, author Hannah Pittard delves into the void that the disappearance of one 16-year-old girl leaves in the lives of the teenage boys who hardly knew her, while narrator Scott Shepherd gives voice to the boys past, present, and future.

Nora Lindell vanishes from her suburban neighborhood on Halloween, and the mystery of her disappearance is never solved. But for the rest of their lives, a group of teenage boys that ran in the same circles will wonder about her, creating their own personal visions of what her life might have become: Did she run away to the southwest, get married, have children? Was she abducted, tortured, murdered? Could she have flown to Mumbai and fallen in love with another woman? And most chillingly is one of the boys keeping something from the rest?

Despite all the unanswered questions, The Fates Will Find Their Way is not really a mystery: its a coming-of-age story told intriguingly from a first-person plural point of view all we, us, and our. Shepherd gives a collective voice to a group of these most unreliable narrators teenage boys and imbues it with everything theyre feeling at that age: curiosity, excitement, bravado, confusion. But he also gives the text the sentimentality, nostalgia, and regret that the now-grown men feel while theyre looking back on that time, imagining Nora and filling in the gaps of their own faulty memories. The narration unspools at a leisurely pace, giving equal time to Noras possible fates and the boys attempt to reconcile who they were when she existed with who they have become.

Critic Reviews:

"Pittard leads the reader into a slew of possibilities spinning out from a 16-year-old girl's disappearance, in her intriguing, beguiling debut....