'I read Saint X in a night, captivated by its mystery but also by
the smart, evocative way Schaitkin writes about race, loss and
place.' - Maggie Shipstead, The Guardian, 'The 30 best holiday
reads' 'Hypnotic, delivering acute social commentary on everything
from class and race to familial bonds and community . . . I
devoured Saint X in a day.' - Oyinkan Braithwaite (author of My
Sister, the Serial Killer), New York Times Claire is only seven
years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the
luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night
of her family's vacation. Several days later Alison's body is found
in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men, employees at
the resort, are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline
against it, and the men are soon released. It's national tabloid
news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved, but for Claire's
family, there is only the sad return home to broken lives. Years
later, riding in a New York City taxi, Claire recognizes the name
on the cab driver's licence: Clive Richardson, one of the men
originally suspected of murdering her sister. The fateful encounter
sets her on an obsessive pursuit of the truth as to not only what
happened on the night of Alison's death, but the no-less-elusive
question of exactly who was this sister she was barely old enough
to know: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a
turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows
Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will
uncover the truth, an unlikely intimacy develops between them, two
people whose lives were forever marked by a tragedy. Alexis
Schaitkin's Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story
that hurtles to a devastating end.
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