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16 year old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore where hotel guest Grace Brown asks her to burn a bundle of secret letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers the letters reveal the grim truth behind the murder. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tradgedy" this astonishing novel weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, real, and wholly original.
16 year old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore where hotel guest Grace Brown asks her to burn a bundle of secret letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers the letters reveal the grim truth behind the murder. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tradgedy" this astonishing novel weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, real, and wholly original.
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