Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow's past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she's willing to go to help a stranger.
But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal - or worse. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. But she can't get the girl out of her head. A Mira hardcover.She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. But as the novel’s powerful and emotionally devastating ending makes clear, she doesn’t understand what it is. Or maybe just without affect, she recalls events from her past. Reader Marie voices Willow’s sections, which take place after her stay in the Woods’ household. Though Heidi’s and Chris’s chapters includeįrequent flashbacks to the past, they follow a linked chronology. Taylorson’s Chris starts out weary from the travel-heavy rut he’s in and annoyed by Heidi’s new insistence on meatless menus, as well as her ceaselessly downbeat tales of society’s ills. Her voice, thanks to reader Campbell, is somewhat academic when describing the city’s social problems, but quickly shifts to concern for the mother and child. Kubica spins her disturbing tale using three present-tense points of view, performed here by a trio of readers. Much to the dismay of her husband, Chris, and her moody 12-year-old daughter, Zoe, Heidi takes the possibly psychotic Willow and tot into their home. What initially seems to be a professional interest rapidly carries over to obsession for Heidi. Kubica’s psychological thriller (the follow-up to 2014’s The Good Girl) focuses on Heidi Woods, a Chicago-based social worker who espies a homeless teenage waif, Willow Geer, on a train platform, clutching a crying baby.
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