She offers philosophical meditations on the meaning of life and death, although they frequently seem imparted by the author rather than arrived at by Beatrice, the narrator, who, having just finished her freshman year at Emerson College, seems too short on life experiences for the depth of these reflections. In her young adult debut, Pessl ( Night Film, 2013, etc.) manages to keep her first-person narrative moving forward while her characters are stuck in time. They will remain in this limbo until the point when they decide which one of them may return to the world of the living. A mysterious man who calls himself the Keeper tells Beatrice, Kipling, Whitley, Cannon, and Martha that they are trapped in a Groundhog Day–like existence called Neverworld Wake. Heading back to the mansion where they’re staying following a punk-rock concert in Newport, Rhode Island, they nearly collide with a tow truck and barrel off the road into a ditch, setting up a strange journey into the unknown. this is the Neverworld Wake.įrom critically acclaimed, literary sensation, Marisha Pessl, comes a spellbinding story that is "the kind of book you'll tear through and then want to talk about with everyone you know." ( Nylon).Five close friends-who used to be six until one of them died-are together again a year after their graduation from boarding school. But how do you choose who to kill? And then how do you live with yourself? This nightmare, this nothingness. With each replay, events twist and fears come alive in horrifying ways. Beatrice and her friends are forced to repeat that dreadful day so many times they lose count. He tells them that they must make a choice: one of them will live, and the rest will die. Or so they believe.īack at the mansion where they are staying, a mysterious man knocks on the door during a raging storm.
After a night out, they narrowly avoid a collision with a car on a deserted road. It's been one year since graduation, and Beatrice Hartley has mixed feelings about joining her friends a weekend reunion. "You wont be able to stop reading." - Refinery29įive friends. "Beautifully creepy." - The New York Times
An absorbing psychological thriller in which fears are physical and memories come alive f rom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film.
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