{"id":1929,"date":"2022-09-22T16:51:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:32:32","slug":"locust-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"Locust Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

The puzzle pieces that make up the rich town of Emerson, Massachusetts don\u2019t quite fit and in the cracks between, unhappiness grows. Michel is a striving Lebanese restaurant owner, his son Christopher a quiet kid who\u2019s trying his hardest to fit into a very white town, with his most strident effort expended on friendship with bully Jack. Michel\u2019s fancy restaurant often hosts the ladies-who-lunch crowd, most frequently Alice, Michel\u2019s married girlfriend who\u2019s stepmom to volatile teen Hannah. The fa\u00e7ade of prosperous goodness collapses in a heap of gossip and accusations when \u201cthat girl Eden,\u201d who\u2019s from the other side of the tracks and has a troubled background, is found dead after partying with Christopher, Hannah, and Jack. The usual haves-and-have-nots divide becomes starker as the pressure mounts on the police to solve this quickly, and secrets and bigotries are revealed\u2026but who did it is tantalizingly unclear until the very end. All through the book, the testing and twisting of relationships keeps the drama high<\/strong> and Amidon leaves us pondering the question of what\u2019s worth sacrificing for love. For Celeste Ng\u2019s many fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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