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Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.

La obra de Samuel Beckett (Dublín, 1906-París, 1989) constituye una de las más interesantes e incisivas del pasado siglo. Su extraordinaria capacidad para exponer los intersticios de la existencia social de los seres humanos, a través del absurdo, el humor y los juegos de lenguaje, imprimió en la literatura una huella indeleble y extendió sus fronteras conceptuales hasta límites nuevos. "Watt" es una novela experimental, filosófica, cómica e inclasificable que, entre otras cosas, constituye un enorme ejercicio de metaficción. En ella, su homónimo protagonista (Watt), un desharrapado del que apenas llegamos a saber nada, pasa dos años como criado en la casa del señor Knott, un enigmático y caprichoso terrateniente cuyo servicio vive en un ambiente de tensión opresiva. ¿Qué ocurre exactamente en casa del señor Knott? No lo sabemos, y sin embargo, como lectores, asistimos a la inquietante transformación que a causa de ello sufre el personaje principal, cuyos esquemas mentales se resquebrajan por completo.