That she manages to do this while also telling a firecracker of a story about what happens when 14 year old Cindy slips into the life of the missing girl next door proves Smith a master. Page after page I was struck by lines so unbearably beautiful and wise that by the final sentence I'd underlined most of the book.
This is the rare book that wants for nothing." - Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek "Sarah Elaine Smith has one of the most likable and delightful writing voices I have encountered recently - funny, lyrical, sexy, sad, humane, and just a total pleasure to read." - Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot, "Sarah Smith's debut, Marilou is Everywhere, is one of the most exquisitely written books I've read in a long time.
And as Smith plumbs what it means to disappear, you'll find yourself in such fullness that you'll ache and disappear too. The fullness of Sarah Smith's prose will you leave feeling like you're hiding in plain sight-just like Cindy Stoat standing in for the missing girl. That ear so close to the rural Pennsylvania ground that you'll know every goddamn goat and swimming hole, every derelict heart and jar of homemade blackberry wine. Marilou Is Everywhere is a powerful, propulsive portrait of an overlooked girl who finds for the first time that her choices matter. As Cindy experiences overwhelming maternal love for the first time, she must reckon with her own deceits and, in the process, learn what it means to be a daughter, a sister, and a neighbor. In her borrowed life she also finds herself accepting the confused love of a mother who is constitutionally incapable of grasping what has happened to her real daughter. As Jude Vanderjohn, Cindy is suddenly surrounded by books and art, by new foods and traditions, and most important, by a startling sense of possibility. So when a glamorous teen from a more affluent, cultured home goes missing, Cindy escapes her own family's poverty and slips into the missing teen's life. As Cindy's brothers take on new responsibilities for her care, the shadow of danger looms larger and the status quo no longer seems tolerable. Deprived of adult supervision, the siblings rely on one another for nourishment of all kinds. Fourteen-year-old Cindy and her two older brothers live in rural Pennsylvania, in a house with occasional electricity, two fierce dogs, one book, and a mother who comes and goes for months at a time. One of Los Angeles Times "Most Anticipated Books of the Summer" A SKIMM READS PICK A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK "This novel reads like a miracle." -NPR Consumed by the longing for a different life, a teenager flees her family and carefully slips into another - replacing a girl whose own sudden disappearance still haunts the town.
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