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Play, Paperback / softback Book

Play Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You will get to the bottom of what happened.Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian.

Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too grown-up.

But The Lighted City isn't without danger. Years later, Paul is struggling with PTSD after a season of turmoil— one in which Adrian is dead, and radio and television are filled with reports of missing children.

Just as stability is settling into her life and relationships, Paul is dragged back into the fate that Adrian seems to have scripted for them. And so she finds herself journeying across the country, down into a ravine, and back to The Lighted City, where so much of her childhood played out.

Only by doing so can she begin to come to terms with 'the day everything happened' and what has unfolded since then. With a unique blend of contemporary storytelling and psychological fiction, Play is a haunting, riveting novel that reminds us of both the beauty and danger of imagination.

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