Praise:
“Rae Meadows’s keen, often humorous take on living, loving, and moving on is like a glass of cold water after a long run. Deeply satisfying.” – Marie Claire
Haunting and absolutely compelling-an unflinching portrait of the great loneliness at the heart of our big American noise. From the glitzy bars of Manhanttan to the donuts shops of Long Island and the vacant suburbs of the Midwest, this novel tells us much of what we need to know about how we live today.- Lewis Buzbee, author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
"In No One Tells Everything, Rae Meadows has created a tough, enthralling portrait of a disturbed teenage boy and a woman captivated by the person she could have been—and fears she may already be. Meadows’s characters are vivid, sympathetic, hopeful, and self-destructive—they’re human—and she has a hawk’s eye for the truly necessary detail and a family's emotional machinery. The truth helps, the novel seems to say, but maybe not enough." -Michelle Wildgen, author of You're Not You
No One Tells Everything
Reader’s Choice Simultaneous Paperback ReleaseBy Rae Meadows
June 06, 2008ISBN: 978-1-59692-292-1
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 275
Price: $23.00 Rights: World, Audio, Performance.
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About the Book
The author who took readers into the strange and fascinating world of Salt Lake City escort services now returns to New York, where a young woman becomes inexplicably drawn to an accused murderer who hails from her hometown.
Grace—a single, early-thirties copy editor—drinks alone in the same bar every night, confides in her longtime bartender, and observes New York City life from the sidelines. But when a local coed is found dead, and a college student from Grace’s hometown is arrested for the murder, something within her stirs. Though the media has portrayed the boy, Charles, as a spoiled rich kid who killed as revenge for a rebuffed sexual advance, Grace senses deeper layers and complications to the story.
Consumed by discovering the truth behind his crime, Grace strikes up an unlikely friendship with the accused killer, becoming more and more obsessed with the case. Barely sleeping and slipping further behind at work, she inadvertently dredges up some dark parts of her own childhood, including the death of her younger sister twenty-five years earlier. And when Grace returns to her childhood home in Ohio, she intends to chase the mystery behind Charles’s crime, but finds the mystery she is chasing is actually her own.
Reader’s Choice Simultaneous Paperback Release
ISBN: Trade Paperback: 978-1-59692-296-9
1-59692-296-6
U.S. $13.50