Description
A young woman’s disappearance in the close-knit community of Carthage ignites a frantic search that quickly turns into a reckoning with fear, suspicion, and the stories people tell themselves to survive. As the investigation tightens around the Mayfield family, an unsettling possibility emerges—one that points toward an unlikely suspect whose past and loyalties complicate every assumption. Joyce Carol Oates delivers a dark, riveting narrative that probes the human capacity for violence, love, and forgiveness, asking what it really means to come home after harm has been done. With her signature intensity and psychological acuity, the novel moves through grief and moral uncertainty toward a haunting meditation on justice, responsibility, and the cost of truth.
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paperback
HarperCollins
Published Jan 1, 2013
482 pages
ISBN: 9780062208125
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Details
First Published
2013
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates.