Books similar to dark places6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The Oprah Book Club selection and number one New York Times bestseller American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, which has sold over two million copies, is now available in paperback. ![]() “I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. “It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn’t so” “The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty – we all have it.” Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.” “I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs.” “I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Now, twenty-four years later, it will be much more difficult to uncover the truth. She begins to believe everybody in her family-especially Ben-had something to conceal that day. Did she recognize her brother’s voice? Although Ben was an outcast in their little town, was he murderous in nature? At the family property, are there mysteries to be discovered, or is Libby just thinking things up because she needs her brother back? Libby begins to pose questions she had never ventured to before after being contacted by a group that believes Ben is innocent. When Libby Day’s evidence led to the imprisonment of her fifteen-year-old brother, she was only seven years old. ![]()
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