by Chris Bohjalian
Six years ago, Laurel Estabrook was brutally attacked as she rode her bicycle on a deserted dirt road near her college campus in Vermont. Now, she works at a Burlington homeless shelter, assisting people with finding food and low rent housing. After Bobbie Crocker, one of her elderly clients, dies of a stroke, Laurel becomes obsessed with a box of old photographs found in his possession. Could this homeless man have been a talented photographer once upon a time? A beginning photographer herself, Laurel is soon devoting every minute to researching Bobbie and his photos, his family and his friends, trying to prove that Bobbie was the son of Daisy Buchanan from Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsy. I was enjoying the fast paced plot and the twists and turns of the story as Laurel comes closer and closer to solving this puzzle but the twist ending left me very disappointed. It did answer many of the story's questions but I still felt slightly cheated.
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