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Age of Consent

图书信息

作者Marti Leimbach
出版社Fourth Estate
ISBN9780008167981
出版时间2016-07-14
字数49.2万
分类进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

Thirty years ago, June was a young widow with a hopeless crush on a Craig Kirtz, a disc jockey at a local rock station. To her surprise, the two struck up a friendship that seemed headed for something more. But it was June’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Bobbie, whom Craig had wanted all along. Bobbie thought her secret life—the sex, the drugs, the illicit relationship itself—could remain safely buried in the past. But when she discovers that Craig had similarly pursued any number of other young girls, Bobbie returns home after a long absence with one purpose in mind:to bring Craig to trial. Her decision is greeted with mixed feelings. Some people think that bringing charges against someone for a crime committed so many years ago is unjustified. She’s called a “middle-aged woman with a vendetta.” She’s accused of waging war against her own family. June remembers things differently from the way Bobbie does. Craig insists he has done nothing wrong. But the past has a way of revealing itself, and some relationships lay dormant through the years, ready to stir to life at the slightest provocation. While their traumatic history is relived in the courtroom, Bobbie and June must face the choices they made and try to make sense of the pain they endured while seeking justice at long last. Told with warmth and compassion, this is a moving, deeply absorbing story of a family in crisis.

目录

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

The Money

Back where She Started

Crash

June’s Worst Day at Work

Crash Night: What June Remembers

Court Begins

Walking Out

Any Person Whosoever

Dan the McDonald’s Boy

You’d have to ask June

Why She Loved Him

Because She Wouldn’t Marry Him

Hospital Letter

How are You, Barbara?

June on the Stand

A Bad Day in Court

He Comes to Stay

June Makes a Decision

Pick it Clean

Bus Stop Meeting

The Last Time

Motel in Arlington

Run to Ground

A Thousand Dollars

Leaving 1978, Leaving Now

Acknowledgments

A Note About the Author

Also by Marti Leimbach

About the Publisher