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When sixteen‑year‑old Alison confesses that she murdered the most popular girl at her school, she is immediately sectioned into a psychiatric institute for adolescents. The case puzzles both doctors and readers alike: no body has ever been recovered, and Alison's recollections are filled with impossible scenes—she describes a fight with Tori that ends in Tori’s sudden disappearance. Her own narrative is unstable, leaving her diagnosis unclear. Over the course of the story, readers are drawn into a world where reality blurs with the fantastical, forcing Alison to confront the truth of her actions while questioning the limits of her mind.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Science Fiction
Authors: R. J. Anderson
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