Susan Perabo
Author of The Fall of Lisa Bellow
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Susan Perabo teaches creative writing at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Image credit: Photograph by A. Pierce Bounds
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Meredith Oliver and Lisa Bellow are 13 year old girls. They attend school together, but they are part of different groups, and Meredith understands that her group is eclipsed by Lisa’s group. They are the cool girls, and Lisa is the coolest girl of all. But fate flings them into a situation in which they are both at risk, and Meredith walks away, while Lisa does not.
How do you deal with being the survivor of a disaster? What if the person who does not survive is not someone you liked? What if she is someone you might have wished harm upon in your secret daydreams. Particularly, how do you deal with that if you are thirteen?
That is the main story line of this novel, but there are several sidebars which are just as, if not more, interesting. Perabo is an able painter of characters, and I particularly liked Evan, Meredith’s older brother. His story was the one that touched me the most and seemed the most realistic. I could have been persuaded to give this a slightly higher rating if Claire, the mother, had been as real. I found her to be incomprehensible, actually. Unlikable in every way, and clueless about how to care for a traumatized child.
This book is admittedly outside the genres that I generally enjoy, but it did certainly hold my interest and propel me forward right to the end. There were questions I would have liked to have answered, but for the most part those were not germane to making the story whole, and some of the threads were obviously there to heighten the suspense surrounding the mystery. If you are a fan of this type of book, this one would no doubt be a good one to read. Susan Perabo is a good writer and spins a good tale.
I received a copy of The Fall of Lisa Bellow from NetGalley in return for an honest review. My thanks to Simon and Shuster and Susan Perabo for this opportunity.
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