The Year of Needy Girls

A Lambda Award finalist that "recalls both Hellman's The Children's Hour and Lehane's Mystic River in a story about murder and false accusations" (The Bay Area Reporter).

Bradley, Massachusetts, is in many ways a typical small New England town, but a river divides it in half-on one side, the East End: crowded triple-deckers, the Most Precious Blood parish, and a Brazilian immigrant community; and on the other, the West End: renovated Victorians, Brandywine Academy, and families with last ...