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No One You Know

by Michelle Richmond

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This was a great book that I just could not put down, once started I had to know how it was going to end. It's full of great characters and gives a great insight into the coffee industry and mathamatics. It has made me want to read more of this author's work. ( )
  alison10 | Oct 29, 2009 |
This book was okay. I found it kind of slow. ( )
  melorock | Sep 22, 2009 |
No One You Know is one of those stories that doesn't grab you so much as slowly suck you in. As everyone who has sat fuming at the table while a relative or friend tells a story about you, that while not exactly untrue, frames you in way you do not wish to be seen can attest, sometimes the stories people tell about us affect us more that we wish.
Ellie Enderlin was the younger daughter, sister to a math genius who is murdered. Later, her sister Lila's death becomes the subject of a true crime story. The story opens almost two decades after Lila's death, when Ellie encounters a man from her sister's past that sets Ellie on the journey to try and figure out the truth of what happened to her sister.
The story examines perceptions,love, truth and proof in a myriad of ways. San Francisco, coffee (as Ellie is now a coffee taster) and mathematicians figure in also. It's one of those stories I hate to talk too much about for fear of spoiling the way the layers unfold. I found it an enjoyable read. ( )
  rrreader | Sep 8, 2009 |
When Ellie Enderlin's sister, Lila, is murdered, Ellie is grief-stricken. Lila was a math genius and Ellie never felt that she measured up to Lila in her parents' eyes. Ellie shares her grief with her literature professor who ends up using the information to write a best-selling true crime novel. Ellie and her parents feel betrayed and outraged. Over the next 20 years, Ellie drifts. She becomes a professional coffee buyer and travels frequently. She finds it hard to become close to anyone. A chance meeting in a small South American village puts Ellie in possession of the notebook that Lila always carried. The knowledge she gains from the notebook leads Ellie to search once again for the truth behind her sister's murder.

The grief Ellie feels for her sister is palpable. The plot and characters are developed slowly over the course of the book. Everything and everyone Ellie knew before Lila's death becomes redefined as she searches for the truth behind her sister's murder 20 years later. This book is not a fast read, but it draws the reader in and is very hard to put down once started. ( )
  lrobe190 | Aug 26, 2009 |
This is an engaging story that has all the elements I like best: mystery, empathy, self realization and adventure all rolled into a tale of two sisters that is unique and very worth reading.
  ctiker | Aug 17, 2009 |
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There are three main aims that one can have in studying the truth. The first is to look for it and discover it. The second is to prove it when no one has discovered it. The third is to distinguish it from falsehood when one examines it. - Blaise Pascal, "On the Spirit of Geometry and the Art of Persuasion"
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For my sisters, Monica and Misty
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When I found him at last, I had long given up the search.
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People/CharactersEllie Elnderlin, Lila Elnderlin, Andrew Thorpe, Peter McConnell, Billy Boudreaux, Henry (show all 11)
Important placesSan Francisco, California, USA, Nicaragua
EpigraphThere are three main aims that one can have in studying the truth. The first is to look for it and discover it. The second is to prove it when no one has discovered it. The third is to distinguish it from falsehood when one e... (show all)
DedicationFor my sisters, Monica and Misty
First wordsWhen I found him at last, I had long given up the search.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385340133, Hardcover)

Michelle Richmond dazzled readers and critics alike with her luminous novel The Year of Fog. Now Richmond returns with an intensely emotional, multilayered family drama—a woman’s search for her sister’s killer that spirals into a journey of secrets, revelations, and damaged lives.

All her life Ellie Enderlin had been known as Lila’s sister. Until one day, without warning, the shape of their family changed forever. Twenty years ago, Lila, a top math student at Stanford, was murdered in a crime that was never solved. In the aftermath of her sister’s death, Ellie entrusted her most intimate feelings to a man who turned the story into a bestselling true crime book—a book that both devastated her family and identified one of Lila’s professors as the killer.

Decades later, two Americans meet in a remote village in Nicaragua. Ellie is now a professional coffee buyer, an inveterate traveler and incapable of trust. Peter is a ruined academic. And their meeting is not by chance. As rain beats down on the steaming rooftops of the village, Peter leaves Ellie with a gift—the notebook that Lila carried everywhere, a piece of evidence not found with her body. Stunned, Ellie will return home to San Francisco to explore the mysteries of Lila’s notebook, filled with mathematical equations, and begin a search that has been waiting for her all these years. It will lead her to a hundred-year-old mathematical puzzle, to a lover no one knew Lila had, to the motives and fate of the man who profited from their family’s anguish—and to the deepest secrets even sisters keep from each other. As she connects with people whose lives unknowingly swirled around her own, Ellie will confront a series of startling revelations—from the eloquent truths of numbers to confessions of love, pain and loss.

A novel about the stories and lies that strangers, lovers and families tell—and the secrets we keep even from ourselves—Michelle Richmond’s new novel is a work of astonishing depth and beauty, at once heartbreaking, provocative, and impossible to put down.

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