The Fates Will Find Their Way

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'^TheFates WtllF'tnd Their Way is a bold, wise, magical, and authentic novel about youthful infatuation and its legacy. Hannah Pittard's beautifully confident prose is sure to make readers look back on their own teenage years with fresh wonder." —Vend el a Vi da, author of T^^Zo-um
^^The Fates Will Find Their Way is about boys, in the collective, and about the reach and limitations of imagination, and the way both our understanding of one another and narratives themselves are built on everything from wishes to propositions to doubts and reconsiderations. It's about the way our imaginations can carry us from a dispiriting selfishness to a nascent empathy, and the way we continue to inflict—or even just observe—pain untU that empathy arrives." —Jim SheparDj author of Like Tou'd Understand, Anyway
"Hannah Pittard's novel is about what's gone missing—not only literally but also metaphorically. The first-person plural certainly nods... Tovább

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The Fates Will Find Their Way
'^TheFates WtllF'tnd Their Way is a bold, wise, magical, and authentic novel about youthful infatuation and its legacy. Hannah Pittard's beautifully confident prose is sure to make readers look back on their own teenage years with fresh wonder." —Vend el a Vi da, author of T^^Zo-um
^^The Fates Will Find Their Way is about boys, in the collective, and about the reach and limitations of imagination, and the way both our understanding of one another and narratives themselves are built on everything from wishes to propositions to doubts and reconsiderations. It's about the way our imaginations can carry us from a dispiriting selfishness to a nascent empathy, and the way we continue to inflict—or even just observe—pain untU that empathy arrives." —Jim SheparDj author of Like Tou'd Understand, Anyway
"Hannah Pittard's novel is about what's gone missing—not only literally but also metaphorically. The first-person plural certainly nods to Jeffrey Eugenides, but it seems to me the voice is rooted in the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder's Our Town as well. Pittard gives the secret wink to the reader, because a story is only a story, but at the same time more than a story, and that's why we love to invent and why we love to listen and to be taken in. At our peril."
—A-sth ATT i-R, sxxthor o^ Walks with Men
"The Fates Will Find Their Way is simply tremendous—a beautiful, roving, restless, and relentless exploration of a crime. It would be almost too sad to bear the implications of this story if it weren't for the warmth, hope, and kindness of its haunting prose."
—patrick somerville, author of r^eCr/zi^/e
Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighborhood boys she's left behind are caught forever in the heady current of her absence.
As the days and years pile up, the mystery of her disappearance grows kaleidoscopically. A collection of rumors, divergent suspicions, and tantalizing what-ifs, Nora Lindell's story is a shadowy projection of teenage lust, friendship, reverence, and regret, captured magically in the disembodied plural voice of the boys who still long for her.
Told in haunting, percussive prose, Hannah Pittard's beautifully crafted novel tracks the emotional progress of the sister Nora left behind, the other families in their leafy suburban enclave, and the individual fates of the boys in her thrall. Far more eager to imagine Nora's fate than to scrutinize their own, the boys sleepwalk into an adulthood ofjobs, marriages, families, homes, and daughters of their own, all the while pining for a girl—and a life—that no longer exists, except in the imagination.
A masterful literary debut that shines a light into the dream-filled space between childhood and all that follows. The Fates Will Find Their Way is a story about the stories we tell ourselves—of who we once were and may someday become. Vissza