num_pages: 304
description: Combining the raw-edge realism of Richard Price with the imaginative flair of Jonathan Lethem a riveting literary mystery in which the disappearance of a teenaged girl sends shock waves through her waterfront community.Summer in Red Hook Brooklyn a blue collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless fifteen-year-old June and Val are looking for some fun. Forget the boys the bottles the coded whistles. Val wants to do something wild and a little crazy: take a raft out onto the bay.But out on the water as the bright light of day gives way to darkness the girls disappear. Only Val will survive washed ashore semi-conscious in the weeds.June's shocking disappearance will reverberate in the lives of a diverse cast of Red Hook residents. Fadi the Lebanese bodega owner trolls for information about the crime. Cree just beginning to pull it together after his father's murder unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect although an elusive guardian seems to have other plans for him. As Val emerges from the shadow of her missing friend her teacher Jonathan Julliard drop-out and barfly will be forced to confront a past riddled with tragic sins of omission.In Visitation Street Ivy Pochoda combines intensely vivid prose with breathtaking psychological insight to explore a cast of solitary souls pulled by family love and betrayal who yearn for a chance to escape no matter the cost.
language: English
title: Visitation Street
publisher: Dennis Lehane Books/Ecco