![]() "A brilliant tale of psychological suspense, Bunny Lake Is Missing is a classic thriller-a riveting revisit to the dark side of the fifties, where the tension beneath the calm surface has an undertow that drags the reader into its grip. Prime pulp-pure pleasure." -Linda Fairstein, author of The Bone Vault "A classic thriller-a riveting revisit to the dark side of the fifties, where the tension beneath the calm surface has an undertow that drags the reader into its grip. Blanche emerges as a new kind of heroine-a hard-boiled mom with gun in hand, willing to take any risk to find her missing daughter. In this fraught and at times freakish tale of suspense, Evelyn Piper takes us deep into the psyche of the 1950s to explore American fetishes, fallacies, and fears around motherhood and sexuality. Neither teachers nor students recall the small girl, and soon Blanche is engaged in a frantic search for any trace of her missing daughter. But her expectant waiting becomes a mother's most dreaded nightmare: Bunny never materializes. It's the first day of school when this story begins, and Blanche is eager to see how her daughter, Bunny, has fared away from home. She lives alone, has a job, and has never been married. Blanche Lake is not like the other mothers who come to collect their children at the local nursery school on New York's Upper East Side. The classic novel of suspense is "a headlong story of nerve-wracking tension, psychological validity and emotional drive" ( Oakland Tribune ). ![]()
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