THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME
Book ID/图书代码： 02330012B57070
English Summary/英文概要： A debut novel by award-winning author Holly Goddard Jones, about the people surprisingly connected to the discovery of a dead woman’s body in a small town.
Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn’t have many friends. She finds more comfort playing make-believe in the woods near her house in Roma, Kentucky, than with her classmates, who find her strange and awkward. When she happens upon a dead body hidden in the woods one day, she decides not to tell anyone about her discovery—a choice that begins to haunt her.
Susanna Mitchell has always been a good girl, the dutiful daughter and wife. While her older sister Ronnie trolled bars for men and often drove home at sunrise, Susanna kept a neat house, a respectable job, a young daughter. But when Ronnie goes missing, and Susanna realizes that she’s the only person in Roma who truly cares about her sister’s fate, she starts to question her quiet life and its value.
The Next Time You See Me is the story of how one woman’s disappearance exposes the ambitions, prejudices, and anxieties of a small southern town and its residents, who are all connected, sometimes in unexpected ways. Emily; Susannah; Tony, a failed baseball star-turned-detective, aspiring to be the county’s first black sheriff; and Wyatt, a fifty-five-year-old factory worker tormented by a past he can’t change and by a love he doesn’t think he deserves. Their stories converge in a violent climax that reveals not just the mystery of what happened to Ronnie but all of their secret selves.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 十三歲的Emily Houchens沒有什麼朋友。她發現在肯塔基州靠近Roma鎮的森林里與幻想的玩伴遊戲，要比和那些覺得她怪異的同學在一起自在。當她有一天在森林里發現一具死屍時，她決定不告訴任何人她的這個發現 —— 而她這項選擇也開始讓她漸漸困擾了起來。
Susanna Mitchell一直是一個乖乖女，一位恪守本分的女兒和妻子。雖然她年長的姐姐Ronnie成日里廝混于酒吧的男人中間，以至於經常是天明回家，Susanna一直把房子整理得井然有序，她有著一份體面的工作，和一個年幼的女兒。但當Ronnie失蹤時，Susanna意識到在Roma這個鎮上，只有她是真正在意姐姐生死的一個人，她開始質疑困惑起自己平靜的生活和它的價值意義。
《下次相遇》的故事講述了，一個女人的失蹤事件是如何暴露出，南方當地小鎮居民人性中那些無法預計的野心，偏見和焦慮。Tony曾經是失敗的棒球明星，現在轉行成為偵探，勵志要成為全縣第一位黑人警長。Wyatt，一位年屆55歲的工人，掙扎于過去一段無法改變和他自認為無法獲得愛的痛苦之中。他們的故事彙集於一場暴力事件的高潮點，不僅揭示了Ronnie是如何神秘的死亡，還有所有這些故事人物自身隱藏的秘密。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：“The lonely cast of outcasts in The Next Time You See Me has enough heartache for a whole jukebox full of country songs. Holly Goddard Jones spins a tight if heartbreaking tale, always keeping the reader leaning forward.” “The Next Time You See Me is an astoundingly good novel. Holly Goddard Jones writes with authority and a deep generosity about a large swath of humanity within a small town: Outsiders and insiders, middle-schoolers and the middle-aged, the violent and the violated, the lost and the found—and all those in between. The result is simply mesmerizing.”
--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
French translation rights in the novel have been licensed to Albin Michel and Italian rights to Fazi Editore.
About the Author/作者介绍： 霍利•戈達德•鐘斯在肯塔基州西部出生，這一成長經歷成為她日後作品故事的背景素材。她的短篇小说曾廣受好評，而她把(2007年和2008年)發表的《南方新作》和在2008年發表的《美国最具神秘的故事》編撰成合集。在2006年，她被授予与塞沃尼作家会议上獲得彼得•泰勒榮譽奖学金，她本人還在2007年獲得罗纳斐基金会作家奖，每只有六位女性小說作家能獲得此獎項的兩萬五千美元獎金。
畢業于俄亥俄州立大学獲得藝術碩士學位，她曾在丹尼森学院，塞沃尼年輕作家協會，美国莫瑞州立大學和北卡罗来纳大學教學。她目前和丈夫和兩只狗居住在一起，
Holly Goddard Jones’s debut novel, THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME, will be released from Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in February 2013. She is the author of a collection of short stories, GIRL TROUBLE (Harper Perennial 2009), and her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in TIN HOUSE, EPOCH, BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES, NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH, and various journals. She was a 2007 recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, which honors six emerging women fiction writers annually. She teaches is the MFA program in creative writing at UNC Greensboro.
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