The Incident on the Bridge

By Laura McNeal

Book Overview

From National Book Award nominee Laura McNeal comes a gripping, tautly-told novel that is at once hopeful and harrowing. Perfect for fans of We Were Liars and Bone Gap . ? When Thisbe Locke is last seen standing on the edge of the Coronado Bridge, it looks like there is only one thing to call it. But her sister Ted is not convinced. Despite the witnesses and the police reports and the divers and the fact that she was heartbroken about the way things ended with Clay and how she humiliated herself at that party, Thisbe isn't the type of person to end up just an "incident." ? While everyone in town prepares to mourn the loss (some more than others), Ted and Fen, the new kid in town, set out to put the pieces together and find her sister. ? But if Thisbe didn't jump, what happened up on that bridge?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375870792
• ISBN13: 9780375870798
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great once you get into it

I really like the plot of this book. I think it’d be best to read this book without reading the synopsis because I didn’t and I liked the book. The only thing I disliked is the writing style. This book is writing in third person (author/narrator’s pov) but there is some use of unnecessary profanity which is kind of weird to me. There are also unnecessary sentences and strange use of language in parentheses like “Gracie took time to...admire the hummingbird feeder(Mm-hmm! Look at that, baby!)...” like... did that really need to be there? But other than that, the story is great. There is also some nice racial and class/social status diversity.