Visitation Street

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Visitation Street was chosen as an Amazon Best Book of the Month, Amazon Best Book ofand a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Huffington Post, Sel Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novel /5.

Visitation Street is billed as a book about teenagers June and Val, who take a pink inflatable raft out into the bay from Red Hook, a deprived Brooklyn neighbourhood, one humid summer evening. Val washes ashore later that night; June's body cannot be found. Nevertheless, despite the weight of this tragedy, the novel is more about Red Hook /5().

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, July A crowd gathers on the corner of Visitation Street after the disappearance of two local girls--one of whom has washed up on shore, barely alive--and our narrator teases: “The story develops slowly.” The same can be said of Ivy Pochoda’s atmospheric debut, which is as much an ode to the ragged neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn as it /5().

Visitation Street is imbued with mystery and danger. Emma Straub. Visitation Street [is] beautiful, haunting. Ivy Pochoda brings forth the full palette of human emotions in this gripping urban drama, a story that hurts you on one page and gives you hope on the next.

A marvelous novel. Michael Koryta. Visitation Street is urban opera writ large Brand: HarperCollins Publishers. Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda's Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.

It's summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see. Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda’s Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.

It’s summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fift. Visitation street The book brought back memories of my childhood in Brooklyn.

The way the author tells the story you can believe you are there in this place. Good story, very believable. Relwood, 06/17/ Big letdown The story started off well and I read through the first few chapters quickly.

However, what began as an great plot with /5(). Visitation Street A Novel (Book): Pochoda, Ivy: "It's summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood.

June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see. And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore, semi-conscious in the weeds"   VISITATION STREET.

by Ivy Pochoda ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 9, A mystery about a missing girl and the ghosts she leaves behind. The book is split into three sections, including a first one which alternates chapters between the time of Ellie’s disappearance and the present and a second section that begins as Laurel and Floyd meet.

Both. VISITATION STREET. Chosen by Dennis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda’s Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.

It’s summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto.

Visitation Street - An odd place to visit This book defies categorization, in my view: part mystery, part class struggle study, part mood piece. Interesting characters and situations, the story told in overlapping vignettes from various character's points of view.

Ivy Pochoda Visitation Street Similar books. Books similar to Visitation Street Visitation Street. by Ivy Pochoda. avg. rating Ratings. Combining the raw-edge realism of Richard Price with the imaginative flair of Jonathan Lethem, a riveting literary mystery in which the disappearance of a teenaged girl sends shock waves through.

Visitation Street (Book): Pochoda, Ivy: Chosen by Dennis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda's Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.

It's summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what. Buy a cheap copy of Visitation Street book by Ivy Pochoda. An Amazon Best Book of the Month, July A crowd gathers on the corner of Visitation Street after the disappearance of two local girls--one of whom has washed Free shipping over $   Visitation Street [novel] (Book): Pochoda, Ivy: Baker & TaylorWhen an adventure on the bay takes a tragic turn, resulting in her best friend's disappearance, Val, who was washed ashore semi-conscious, is left to deal with the aftermath, while their teacher, a Julliard drop-out and barfly, must confront a past riddled with sins of omission.

75, first COLLChosen by Dennis. Her second novel, Visitation Street was published by Ecco, a publishing imprint of HarperCollins, in July Visitation Street is only the second title chosen by Dennis Lehane for his eponymous imprint. Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, will publish Visitation Street in the United Kingdom.

Wonder Valley was published by Ecco in   Visitation Street explores a community’s response to tragedy with crystalline prose, a dose of the uncanny, and an unblinking eye for both human frailty and resilience. Marvelous. Deborah Harkness. Visitation Street is urban opera writ large.

Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price Pages:   Visitation Street (Book): Pochoda, Ivy: "It's summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see.

And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore, semi-conscious in the weeds" Visitation Street.

Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda’s Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook. It’s summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. “Visitation Street” is the second stand alone novel and was released in the year Summer in the blue collar neighborhood, called Red Hook, Brooklyn, where hipster gourmet supermarkets push up against tired housing projects, and the East River opens into the bay.

Listless and bored, June and Val, age fifteen, are looking to have some fun. Visitation Street book. The strongest pull here is not the mystery but the humanely drawn cast of neighborhood characters who hold their breath — and rethink their own teetering lives — while.Excerpt from Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda, plus links to reviews, author biography & more.

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Chosen by Dennis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda’s Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook. It’s summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood.