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Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the author.
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A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly
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- Released
- 2004
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- Title
- A Northern Light
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jennifer Donnelly
- Publisher
- HMH Books for Young Readers
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 396
- ISBN10
- 0152053107
- ISBN13
- 9780152053109
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Mystery Novels, Love, Family, Friendship, Murders, Death, Girls, Hope, Letters, Poverty, Farms, Homesteads, Hotels, Female Writers, North America
- Original title
- A northern light
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the author.