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001			on1089560287
003			OCoLC
005			20191119142646.0
008			190309s2019 nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a0316509728
020			_a9780316509725
035			_a(OCoLC)on1089560287
040			_aYDX _beng _cYDX _dETC _dOCLCO _dSOM _dOCLCF _dCMI _dOCLCO _dJAS
050	1	4	_aPS3605.S49 _bN68 2019
082	0	4	_a813/.6 _223
100	1		_aEskens, Allen, _d1963- _eauthor. _995311
245	1	0	_aNothing more dangerous _ba novel /
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bMulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, _c2019.
300			_avii, 293 pages ; _c25 cm
520			_aAfter fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a child and his sanctuary as he grew older, seem to be closing in on him, suffocating him. Then Thomas Elgin moves in across the road, and Boady's life begins to twist and turn. Coming to know the Elgins-a black family settling into a community where notions of "us" and "them" carry the weight of history-forces Boady to rethink his understanding of the world he's taken for granted. Secrets hidden in plain sight begin to unfold: the mother who wraps herself in the loss of her husband, the neighbor who carries the wounds of a mysterious past that he holds close, the quiet boss who is fighting his own hidden battle. But the biggest secret of all is the disappearance of Lida Poe, the African-American woman who keeps the books at the local plastics factory. Word has it that Ms. Poe left town, along with a hundred thousand dollars of company money. Although Boady has never met the missing woman, he discovers that the threads of her life are woven into the deepest fabric of his world. As the mystery of her fate plays out, Boady begins to see the stark lines of race and class that both bind and divide this small town, and he is forced to choose sides.
650		0	_aMissing persons _vFiction. _995312
650		0	_aRacism _vFiction. _995313
651		0	_aMissouri _vFiction. _995314
655		7	_aBildungsromans. _2gsafd _995315
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd _995316
655		7	_aMystery fiction. _2gsafd _995317
655		7	_aFiction. _2fast _995318
655		7	_aDetective and mystery fiction. _2lcgft _995319
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _995316
655		7	_aBildungsromans. _2lcgft _995315
942			_2ddc _cF