Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
When Claire's best friend Richy went missing, he disappeared without a trace. But when Emily Dickinson's dress goes missing from the Amherst museum, she knows exactly where it is: in her closet.
As Claire and her student teacher, Tate, attempt to figure out what do to about the dress, they begin to uncover the truth behind Richy's disappearing act. Following a trail of clues across state lines, Claire and Tate attempt to find the person that Claire knows is responsible for his disappearance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Claire's mother committed suicide, and Claire's best friend, Richy, went missing nine months ago. Now she and her father have moved from Rhode Island to Amherst, Mass., so Claire can repeat her disrupted senior year in fresh surroundings. Claire's obsession with her mother and Richy is understandable and clear, more so than her emotions toward the living namely her father; a college-age student teacher named Tate; and a classmate, Tess who intrude upon Claire's self-absorbed consciousness in brief, disconnected scenes. Tate in particular is an uncomfortable character. Because he is a teacher, his interactions and eventual romance with Claire come across as harassing, even stalkerish. Their mutual fascination with the poet Emily Dickinson, symbolized by Tate's distaste for the way her dress is displayed at the Amherst house where she lived, is the crux of the plot. Burak threads her debut novel with snippets of Dickinson's poetry, which serve as a springboard for Claire's own writing, but both Dickinson and Claire are lost amid the thicket of literary allusion and overwrought imagery. Ages 13 up.
