Visitation Street
By: Ivy Pochoda
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781443420419
Copyright date: 2013
Description: Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an isolated 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-olds June and Val are looking for 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 on the water during the humid night, the girls disappear. Only Val survives, washing ashore in the weeds, bruised and unconscious. This shocking event echoes through the lives of Red Hooks diverse residents.