A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR - A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.
Against the backdrop of a town suffocating on its own secrets, in a story that builds from a smolder to a stunning climax, Kala brilliantly examines the sometimes brutal costs of belonging, as well as the battle in the human heart between vengeance and forgiveness, despair and redemption..
And as past and present begin to collide, the estranged friends are forced to confront their own complicity in the events that led to Kala\'s disappearance.
Two more girls have gone missing.
But human remains have been discovered in the woods.
Now it\'s fifteen years later: Helen has reluctantly returned to Ireland for her father\'s wedding
Joe is a world-famous musician, newly back in town; and Mush has never left, too scared to venture beyond the counter of his mother\'s café.
Soon after that summer\'s peak, Kala disappeared without a trace.
They--Helen, Joe, and Mush--were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003, with motherless, reckless Kala Lanann as their group\'s white-hot center. [A] gritty heartbreaker of a thriller...
Part heartfelt coming-of-age tale, part brutal Irish noir, this is a spectacular read for Donna Tartt and Tana French fans.-- Kirkus In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland\'s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR - A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives
