num_pages: 347
description:  A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestsellerA girl emerges from the woods starved ill and aloneand collapses.Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway away from her overscheduled and completely normal life and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital she never imagines how the encounter will change hera change she both fears and desperately needs.Suzanne has the perfect house a successful husband and a thriving family. But beneath the veneer of an ideal life her daughter is rebelling her son is withdrawing her husband is oblivious to it all and Suzanne is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. After her discovery of the ethereal sixteen-year-old who has never experienced civilization Suzanne is compelled to invite Iris into her familys life and all its apparent privileges.But Iris has an independence a love of solitude and a discomfort with materialism that contrasts with everything the Blakemores stand forqualities that awaken in Suzanne first a fascination then a longing. Now Suzanne cant help but wonder: Is she destined to save Iris or is Iris the one who will save her?
language: English
title: True Places
publisher: Lake Union Publishing