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Among 1979 and 1981, twenty-nine childrens disappeared from the streets of Atlanta. during this compelling memoir, Kim Reid grows up within the shadow of her mother's activity as an investigator at the lacking and Murdered young children case. Thirteen-year-old Kim Reid won't ever fail to remember the summer time of 1979. while she isn't brooding about boys, make-up, and beginning highschool within the fall, she's busy caring for her little sister whereas her unmarried mother works as a cop.  through midsummer, the invention of 2 murdered youth alongside a quiet Atlanta street alterations everything. School starts off back, yet having fewer youngsters at the streets doesn't cease the killer. extra teenagers disappear, silently vanishing from the skating rink and sidewalks she frequently visits, and Kim quickly learns there is not any position secure. whilst her mom is assigned to a different activity strength created to unravel the murders, bringing her paintings domestic and turning into preoccupied along with her more and more high-profile task, Kim feels existence unraveling.  It turns into more and more tough to straddle worlds:  her local no longer faraway from the place numerous sufferers are discovered, and her filthy rich deepest university the place she feels faraway from the risk. Teetering at the breaking point among woman and girl, Kim is torn among becoming in and discovering her personal voice; among turning into robust and clinging to the final strains of her adolescence.

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