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Richly atmospheric and darkly unforgettable, an astonishing American debut about lost innocence and life on the ragged margins of society

´Lyrical, sexy, humane, and just a total pleasure to read´ Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot

´Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished don´t come along very often... Smith is a writer of immense talent and rare imagination [and] this novel reads like a miracle´ - NPR

´To be honest, we just weren´t looking that hard. Nobody knew where to search and it was summer vacation anyway - but that wasn´t the reason nobody looked for Jude.´

One summer, a teenager disappears from Deep Valley, Pennsylvania. Jude is beautiful, intelligent, and mixed race. The cops search for her - but not as hard as they would if she were a white girl. Watching this mystery unfold is Cindy, a younger girl from a white trash family, who has idolised Jude for years. And so, in the absence of anyone to give a damn about her, Cindy starts to slip out of her own life and into the space Jude left behind...

Marilou Is Everywhere is a story about the desperation to escape - and the terrible, intimate crimes we commit to do so. Swimming in the rich melancholia of rural America, it is a fall from grace, a moral provocation, and a heartbreaking account of life in the margins.

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Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished don´t come along very often at all, and Marilou Is Everywhere proves Smith a writer of immense talent and rare imagination... This novel reads like a miracle. NPR

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Smith, Sarah Elaine
Sarah Elaine Smith holds MFAs in fiction from the Iowa Writers´ Workshop and poetry from the Michener Center for Writers. She is also a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Wallace Fellowship and a teaching-writing fellowship, in addition to the Keene Prize for Literature, the Roy Crane Prize, the Richard Yates Prize for Short Fiction and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center´s First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Tin House, FENCE, Best New Poets and others, and she is the author of one poetry collection, I Live in a Hut. She lives in Pittsburgh.

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