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Babysitter / Joyce Carol Oates.

by Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

Kidnapping -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Serial murderers -- Fiction.

Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.

9780593535172 (hc)

431 p. ; 25 cm.

"This is a Borzoi book"-- T.p. verso.

"From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit. In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery of elite Detroit, who has always been impossible to identify and immune to retribution. As Babysitter continues to strike-sending the city and its surroundings into pandemonium-these characters intersect, jeopardize one another, and are pushed to their limits. Suspenseful, brilliant, and wholly engrossing, Babysitter asks what we would risk for a chance at a new life, and how to protect all we cherish most. A scathing indictment of the corrupt politics, unexamined racism, and sexual predation in America, Babysitter is a thrilling novel and an absolute force."--Publisher.

Suspense fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Literary fiction.

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