Librarian Lynn recommends: The Divide by Nicholas Evans (F Evans)

From the author of the Horse Whisperer comes this family drama of love, murder, and recovery. The book begins with the discovery of a young girl’s body frozen in the ice in a Montana creek. The body is soon identified as Abbie Cooper who is wanted by the FBI. Most of the story is a flashback to the Cooper family’s upper-middle class life in suburban New York. Are the Coopers the perfect family with wonderful daughter Abbie and not so successful son Josh? Only on the surface is this family getting along. As the story unfolds, parents Sarah and Benjamin have been neglecting each other and their marriage deteriorates until Benjamin makes the decision to leave the family. Abbie takes this the hardest and can’t forgive her father. She is alienated by the situation and takes up with an environmental terrorist who leads her down the path of no return. This novel moves along rapidly from devastation and despair to acceptance and finally to a new beginning. If you like family tragedies and suspense, this book will fascinate you.

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