Finished reading: Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda 📚

2013 | Mystery/thriller (but very much character-driven and not at all plot-driven)

This book is set in Red Hook, Brooklyn, just as it was beginning to be gentrified, and has such a strong sense of place–the neighborhood feels like a character itself. The large cast of characters reminded me of a James McBride book (a good thing). Though the premise seems like this will be a thriller (two fifteen-year-old girls take a raft out on the river, only one returns), it’s much slower-paced than a proper thriller (an interesting and good thing), and even the mystery takes a backseat to the character development.

🎧 (Libby) ✭✭✭