The Next Time You See Me: A Novel

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Simon and Schuster, Feb 12, 2013 - Fiction - 384 pages
Hailed as “an astoundingly good novel” by Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl, and winner of the 2014 Kentucky Literary Award, The Next Time You See Me is a gripping tale of mystery, desperation, and redemption.

When a small Southern town’s most fiery single woman is found dead in the woods, it’s not just her secrets that threaten to surface. There’s Ronnie’s sister, Susanna, a dutiful but dissatisfied schoolteacher, mother, and wife; Tony, a failed baseball star turned detective; Emily, a socially awkward thirteen-year-old with a dark secret; and Wyatt, a factory worker tormented by a past he can’t change and by a love he doesn’t think he deserves.

Connected in ways they cannot begin to imagine, their stories converge in a violent climax that reveals not just the mystery of what happened to Ronnie, but all of their secret selves. Praised as “immensely satisfying and skillful” by Kate Atkinson, author of New York Times bestseller Life After Life, The Next Time You See Me is a debut novel not to be missed.
 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
19
Section 3
34
Section 4
48
Section 5
73
Section 6
77
Section 7
89
Section 8
100
Section 19
223
Section 20
229
Section 21
236
Section 22
246
Section 23
252
Section 24
257
Section 25
266
Section 26
276

Section 9
116
Section 10
124
Section 11
130
Section 12
138
Section 13
155
Section 14
168
Section 15
174
Section 16
194
Section 17
200
Section 18
208
Section 27
283
Section 28
293
Section 29
304
Section 30
314
Section 31
325
Section 32
337
Section 33
355
Section 34
379
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Holly Goddard Jones is the author of the short story collection Girl Trouble. Her work has appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South, Tin House magazine, and elsewhere. She was a 2013 recipient of The Fellowship of Southern Writers’ Hillsdale Prize for Excellence in Fiction and a 2007 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and lives in Greensboro with her husband, Brandon, and two rowdy dogs. Visit HollyGoddardJones.com.

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