Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House | Hogarth for gifting me a digital ARC of the latest offering by Joyce Carol Oates. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 5 stars!
Francis Fox is a charming English teacher at the private Langhorne Academy. boarding school. His students love him as do their parents and his colleagues. But when two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond, the entire community begins to ask questions.
Oh my goodness. This book will gut you. But it's masterful in its execution, as to be expected from Joyce Carol Oates. It's dark, disturbing, frightening in its evil reality. What I loved most was how this story was told from the viewpoint of so many people in Fox's orbit, from a janitor, a child, even a dog! Your mind will wrap around all these people and the tentacles that can result from one person's actions. There are many suspects that I questioned along the way. It's a long, immersive book and I started reading the digital copy when my audiobook hold came in from the library. And I never went back to the digital. The audiobook is done with a cast and it was perfection. It truly brought these characters to life. Do not miss this one.
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