Close Your Eyes: A Novel

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Random House Publishing Group, Aug 14, 2012 - Fiction - 288 pages

For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her father is a murderer. Before the horrific tragedy, Lauren led a sheltered life on the banks of Long Island Sound, a haven of luxurious homes and seemingly perfect families. But one morning, eight-year-old Lauren and her older brother awoke to discover their mother’s body and their beloved father arrested for the murder.
 
Years later, Lauren is surrounded by uncertainty. Startling revelations force her to peek under the floorboards of her carefully constructed memories, put aside the version of history that she has clung to so fiercely, and search for the truth of what really happened that fateful night long ago.

 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
12
Section 3
21
Section 4
33
Section 5
39
Section 6
43
Section 7
45
Section 8
52
Section 22
127
Section 23
130
Section 24
134
Section 25
147
Section 26
152
Section 27
161
Section 28
170
Section 29
179

Section 9
55
Section 10
65
Section 11
71
Section 12
73
Section 13
76
Section 14
78
Section 15
81
Section 16
87
Section 17
90
Section 18
100
Section 19
108
Section 20
113
Section 21
118
Section 30
185
Section 31
193
Section 32
198
Section 33
204
Section 34
207
Section 35
218
Section 36
225
Section 37
230
Section 38
235
Section 39
239
Section 40
245
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About the author (2012)

Amanda Eyre Ward is the author of Sleep Toward Heaven, How to Be Lost, and Forgive Me, as well as a collection of short stories, Love Stories in This Town. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her family.

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