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‘The God of the Woods’ by Liz Moore

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In Moore’s best-selling novel, two children from a wealthy family have disappeared, 14 years apart. When the novel opens in August 1975, 13-year-old Barbara Van Laar is missing from her bunk at camp. Barbara was conceived after the disappearance of her 8-year-old brother in 1961. Moore’s story, which jumps around nonsequentially and is crowded with characters, is wise about the vulnerability of adolescence and chillingly astute about the invisible boundaries demarcating social class. In Book World, Maureen Corrigan c

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