The local news
By: Miriam Gershow.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780385527613
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction; Brothers -- Death -- Fiction; Grief -- Fiction; Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Bright, precocious but socially awkward Lydia Pasternak reports on the aftermath of her older brother's disappearance. Danny was everything Lydia wasn't: at ease with their parents, popular in school, physically imposing, beloved by the opposite sex. Danny went from being Lydia's playmate in their youth to her tormentor in high school, so his disappearance leaves Lydia with some very mixed feelings, one of which is relief. As time goes on and the weekend search parties prove more and more fruitless, Lydia struggles with the fact that her geeky best friend, David, has feelings for her; she also obsesses over the private investigator hired by the family and allows herself to be sucked into the social world Danny once dominated.