Many thanks to NetGalley and Kensington Publishing for gifting me a digital ARC of the latest novel by T. Greenwood - 4.5 stars rounded up!
Ryan Flannigan is living a quiet, peaceful life in Vermont with her daughter Sasha. But that peace is shattered when she learns that a photo taken of her in 1977 during the blackout in NYC was found in the possession of a pedophile and sex trafficker. The photo was inscribed on the back by her own mother. Then Henri, the photographer, is found dead by suicide. Ryan goes back to the West Village with Sasha to attend his memorial and is forced to confront her past. Her mother, Fiona, took Ryan to live in an artist apartment building so that Fiona could realize her dream of becoming an actress. But it was Ryan who became successful.
Told from Ryan's point of view both in the 1970s and 2019, this was a wonderfully-written introspective of mother and daughter relationships. This is a look at stage moms who will sell their young daughters to get close to their own dreams. It's the selling out of young girls, putting them in films way too old for them and much worse. The grittiness of NYC in the past becomes almost another character and you can feel, taste and smell the city. I loved how Ryan found her family in Gilly, his family, and Henri - people that would always be there for her when her own mother wasn't. This is heartbreaking in its realism and I loved it.
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