Selected WorksFiction
LUX, a novel
LUX is a mystery and dark comedy that erupts when two people are connected by the same missing person. "A sly, irreverent celebration of the not-so-normal life." --Speakeasy Nonfiction
INVISIBLE EDEN, A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod
A literary investigation of fashion writer Christa Worthington, who retreated to a simpler life as a single mother on Cape Cod and became the victim of a brutal murder. MY SISTER LIFE, THE STORY OF MY SISTER’S DISAPPEARANCE
"A fierce, uncompromising picture of her family’s painful disintegration, a jigsaw puzzle picture burned free of bitterness and sentimentality." --New York Times |
WorksLUX, a novel
(Little, Brown and Company, 2005), (Back Bay, paper, 2006) "Darkly amusing...Flook handles matters in extremis--murder, disinterment, kidnapping--with bluff naturalism." --Elle "We are plunged into Flook's off-season, off-kilter Cape Cod, a place where such a love story seems not only plausible, but natural and fitting...Flook is impish and inventive. She finds humor in odd places." --Washington Post Book World INVISIBLE EDEN, A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod
(Broadway Books, 2003), (Broadway, paper, 2004) "Flook is fearless...She writes shrewdly and often with exquisite care about the opposite worlds that were both nurturing and destructive to Christa Worthington." --New York Times "Spellbinding...offers what so many news accounts could not--a coherent context." --Boston Globe "Chilling, edgy...A thoughtful measured tone gives this tale of murder a sense of depth and reach. --Kirkus Reviews MY SISTER LIFE, THE STORY OF MY SISTER’S DISAPPEARANCE
(Pantheon, 1998), (Broadway, paper 1999) When Maria Flook’s fourteen year old sister disappeared from their suburban home, the author was changed forever. "A searing examination of a family consumed by its own contradictions." --Newsday "An unpredictable tale of wayward, parallel lives." --Boston Globe "A starkly beautiful book, full of redemption." --Howard Norman "Gripping, rich, evocative" --Newsweek "A box of dark treasures. A beautifully wrought story of the way things go wrong and the way people survive and explore their detours of fate." --James Ellroy |
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