05388cam a2200721 4500 761791990 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250239747 1250239745 ea3a22a9-7ac7-4f05-9d22-114fdff63f2c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4568253 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Schaitkin, Alexis, 1985- Saint X [Libby] : A Novel. Macmillan Audio, 2020. missing persons. books on tape. Vacation. exotic. audiobooks. Caribbean. audio books. suspenseful. new york city. murder mystery. highbrow. best beach reads. psychological drama. domestic noir. mystery thriller suspense. 2020. family tragedies. women mystery authors. female suspense authors. new york times best books of the year. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 341MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 341MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 "Alexis Schaitkin's splashy debut novel, Saint X, is an audiobook lover's dream...Queue this one up for a murderous, dreamy delight." — Paste Hailed as a "marvel of a book" and "brilliant and unflinching," Alexis Schaitkin's stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison's body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men–employees at the resort–are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives. Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth–not only to find out what happened the night of Alison's death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy. For fans of Emma Cline's The Girls and Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies, Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that culminates in an emotionally powerful ending. Praise for Saint X: "Here is a marvel of a book, a kaleidoscopic examination of race and privilege, family and self, told with the propulsive, kinetic focus of a crime novel. Brilliant and unflinching, Saint X marks the debut of a stunningly gifted writer. I simply couldn't stop reading." – Chang-rae Lee, author of On Such A Full Sea "Richly atmospheric, by turns coolly satiric and warmly romantic, Alexis Schaitkin's brilliant debut novel Saint X imagines a chorus of voices in the aftermath of the alleged rape/murder of a privileged American girl vacationing in an exotic Caribbean country. Part 'true-crime' thriller and part coming-of-age novel narrated by the deceased girl's younger sister, Saint X is irresistibly suspenseful and canny." — Joyce Carol Oates. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Orsini, Kate. Wade, Melinda. Onayemi, Prentice. Butler, Ron. Anderson, Ryan Vincent. Wright, Tristan. Hyde-White, Alex. Carr, Bailey. Dae, Dana. Fennoy, Dave. Gallagher, Dean. Nelson, Denise. Turenne, Ella. Petersdorf, Josh. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/4568253-SaintX.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ea3a22a9-7ac7-4f05-9d22-114fdff63f2c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/4568253-SaintX.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ea3a22a9-7ac7-4f05-9d22-114fdff63f2c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) RV8