The Scamp: A Novel
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Mysterious, chilling, and told a breakneck pace, The Scamp will thrill readers of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and Roxane Gay's An Untamed State.
Rayelle Reed can't escape in her small town, where everyone knows everything and not enough: All the guys she slept with, but not the ones she loved. The baby she had out of wedlock with the pastor's son, and how the baby died, but not the grief and guilt that consume her. At a motel bar, Rayelle meets Couper Gale, a freelance detective on a mission to investigate a rash of missing girls, and she tags along as an excuse to cross the state line. But when Couper's investigation leads them to the mystery surrounding Rayelle's runaway cousin Khaki, she finds she is heading straight back into everything she was hoping to leave behind.
As fates become entwined, Rayelle must follow a haunted and twisted path—leading her toward a collision where loyalties will be betrayed, memories uncovered, and family bonds shattered. Unflinchingly dark and compelling, THE SCAMP confronts head-on the issues of family origins and the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters. It delves deep into the cycle of abuse and poverty, questioning, in the end, the value of any one life, child or adult.
In Pashley's hands, the lost girls of rural and industrial America, trapped in the unforgiving systems of government assistance and single parenthood, are portrayed with depth and nuance. She exposes the ingrained poverty and atmosphere of disillusionment that damns them before they have a chance and she gives them a ray of hope for a better life ahead.
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Jennifer Pashley. (2015). The Scamp: A Novel. Tin House Books.
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Rayelle Reed can't escape in her small town, where everyone knows everything and not enough: All the guys she slept with, but not the ones she loved. The baby she had out of wedlock with the pastor's son, and how the baby died, but not the grief and guilt that consume her. At a motel bar, Rayelle meets Couper Gale, a freelance detective on a mission to investigate a rash of missing girls, and she tags along as an excuse to cross the state line. But when Couper's investigation leads them to the mystery surrounding Rayelle's runaway cousin Khaki, she finds she is heading straight back into everything she was hoping to leave behind.
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Pashley’s gritty debut, told from the viewpoints of two cousins, follows Rayelle Reed, who joins a detective named Couper Gale as they research a trail of missing women who were—unbeknownst to Rayelle—murdered by her cousin Khaki Reed. Khaki leaves South Lake (in an unnamed Southern state) at 16 with an older boyfriend, much to the consternation of her younger cousin Rayelle, who loved her like a sister despite Khaki’s disturbing behavior toward her. After an accident claims her daughter, Rayelle finds herself, at 23, back in her mean mother’s trailer. She finds respite with the older Couper, who’s resisting signing his divorce papers while in the area to work on a book. Meanwhile, in harsh, straightforward prose, Pashley delivers the harrowing details of Khaki’s childhood of sexual and physical abuse, and her emergence as a serial killer who lures victims with her unassuming appearance and the guise of caring for the wounded. Pashley does a superb job contrasting Rayelle’s haunted, regret-tinged chapters with the minutiae of Khaki’s cold, calculating world. The narrative bristles with tension as Rayelle gets closer to Khaki, culminating in a big reveal that changes the way the reader views the cousins’ childhood interactions. After all this, the lackluster ending feels like a cop-out and is the only disappointing thing about this otherwise satisfying book.
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A chance meeting at a bar draws a young woman into an investigation that unexpectedly brings her answers about her long-lost cousin. This engrossing debut novel is driven by the powerful voices of the two cousins, who narrate alternating chapters. At 23, Rayelle lives in her mother's trailer, "unwed, already the mother of a dead baby." Growing up, she was inseparable from her cousin Khaki, three years older and the source of Rayelle's wisdom about boys and bodies. But Khaki's feelings for Rayelle are not innocent or simple: "I hated her. And loved her more than anything." More than a decade ago, Khaki left town with a boyfriend and was never heard from again. Yet in the best and worst moments of Rayelle's life, it's still Khaki she wishes were by her side. Drinking away her nights, Rayelle meets Couper Gale, a man old enough to be her father, who tells her he pays attention for a living. The two fall into an unlikely pairing, traveling across multiple states in Gale's Gran Torino by day and sleeping in his camper by night. An investigative reporter, he's chasing a pattern of missing girls. "Sometimes, a girl dissipates like smoke rising up into the air. So thin, you can't see her anymore. She becomes a cloud. You breathe her in," says Khaki, whom we quickly learn is a serial killer-surely one of fiction's most complicated. Her penchant to destroy what she loves is an obsession she inflicts on women who were abused by those who should have kept them safe. An intense, riveting saga of the multiplying casualties of one family's secrets and a girl's determination to take control after a childhood "that rips you apart so your insides are one big scar."COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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