“While the mystery of the car and what it might contain is thrilling and heartbreaking, the real power of this work, translated from the French by Serle, is in the way Perrin captures the experience of growing up and the myriad ways Nina, Adrien, and Étienne give each other a place of safety—even as they are capable of inflicting great pain on others. While readers may want to know more about Virginie, her distance from the center of the story is fitting for the in-group, out-group tension that drives an underlying darkness from the very beginning. Tender and often raw, this moody novel is a complex tale of friendship wrapped around a mystery.”
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