EAN: 9781529014280

SAINT X - ALEXIS SCHAITKIN KARTONIERT (TB)

"Hypnotic  delivering acute social commentary on everything from class and race to familial
bonds and community . . . I devoured Saint X in a day." --New York Times  Oyinkan Braithwaite
(author of My Sister  The Serial Killer)  Claire is only seven years old when her college-age
sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last
night of her family's vacation. Several days later Alison's body is found in a remote spot on a
nearby cay  and two local men  employees at the resort  are arrested. But the evidence is slim
the timeline against it  and the men are soon released. It's national tabloid news  a lurid
mystery that will go unsolved  but for Claire's family there is only the sad return home to
broken lives.  Years later  riding in a New York City taxicab  Claire recognizes the name on
the cabbie's licence  Clive Richardson - her driver is one of the men originally suspected of
murdering her sister. The fateful encounter sets her on an obsessive pursuit of the truth  not
only what happened on the night of Alison's death  but the no less elusive question of exactly
who was this sister she was barely old enough to know: a beautiful  changeable  provocative
girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive
hoping to gain his trust  waiting for the slip that will uncover the truth  an unlikely
intimacy develops between them  two people whose lives were forever marked by a tragedy.  
Alexis Schaitkin's Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that hurtles to a
devastating end.

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