Hold Still a Novel Strong Lynn Steger
Hold Still a Novel Strong Lynn Steger When Maya Taylor, an English professor with a tendency to hide in her books, sends her daughter to Florida to look after a friend's child, she does so with the…
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<strong>Holdstrong> <strong>Stillstrong> a <strong>Novelstrong> Strong Lynn Steger
When Maya Taylor, an English professor with a tendency to hide in her books, sends her daughter to Florida to look after a friend's child, she does so with the best of intentions; it's a chance for Ellie, twenty and spiraling, to rebuild her life. In two separate timelines--before and after the catastrophe--Maya and Ellie must try to repair their fractured relationship and find a way to transcend not only their differences but also their more troubling similarities. But in the sprawling hours of one humid afternoon, Ellie makes a mistake she cannot take back.
<strong>Holdstrong> <strong>Stillstrong> marks a taut and propulsive debut that "builds to a perfect crescendo, an ending that is both surprising and true" (Marcy "[Melding] psychological insight, precise plotting and limpid prose" (Huffington Post), Lynn Steger Strong traces the anatomy of a mistake and the weight of culpability.