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Part detective novel part ghost story this brilliant debut asks a tantalizing question What really happens when a girl goes missing
A thrilling manyfaceted gothic novel Erin Kate Ryans Quantum Girl Theory belongs in the same company as the work of Shirley Jackson and Carmen Maria MachadoKelly Link author of Get in Trouble
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Mary Garrett has a gift for finding missing girls a special kind of clairvoyance she calls the sight Lured by a poster and the promise of a reward she arrives at a small town in the Jim Crow South to discover that not one but three girls have vanishedtwo of whom are Black and whose disappearances have gone uninvestigated outside their own community She sets out to find them
As it turns out Mary is herself a missing girl In another life she was a Bennington College sophomore named Paula Jean Welden who disappeared one night in 1946 The case captivated the nations imagination triggering frontpage headlines scores of dubious sightings and a wave of speculation Who was Paula Jean really and why had she disappeared
As Marys search for the three missing girls intensifies so do the glimpses of Paula Jeans other possible lives She is a circus showgirl hidingfrom her past a literary forger on the verge of being caught a McCarthyera informant in love with a woman she meets in a Communist cell With the signals multiplying the locals beginning to resent her presence and threats coming from all sides Mary wonders whether she can trust anyonemost of all herself
Both a captivating mystery and a powerful thought experiment Quantum Girl Theory spins out a new way of seeing those who seem to disappear before our eyes
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