The Double Bind (Vintage Contemporaries)
by By Bohjalian, Christopher A.
Category: Fiction , Literary

From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a gripping psychological novel of obsession and consequence.When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back  roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her  photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie  Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he  won’t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies, Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secret–a  story that leads her far from her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers  who claim they want to save her.In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties  and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England,  bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written an extraordinary novel.