{"product_id":"visitation-street-isbn-9780062249890","title":"Visitation Street","description":"\u003cp\u003eChosen by Dennis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda’s \u003cem\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/em\u003e is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore; semi-conscious in the weeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis shocking event will echo through the lives of a diverse cast of Red Hook residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, hopes that his shop will be the place to share neighborhood news and troll for information about June’s disappearance. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his father’s murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect, but an enigmatic and elusive guardian is determined to keep him safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVal contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she buries deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan, a Julliard School dropout and barfly, wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eSummer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an isolated blue-collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-olds June and Val are looking for fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles. Val wants to do something wild and a little crazy: take a raft out onto the bay. But on the water during the humid night, the girls disappear. Only Val survives, washing ashore in the weeds, bruised and unconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis shocking event echoes through the lives of Red Hook's diverse residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, hopes that his shop is a place to share neighborhood news, and he trolls for information about June's disappearance. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his father's murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect in the investigation, but an enigmatic and elusive guardian is determined to keep him safe. Val contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she's buried deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan, a Juilliard dropout and barfly, wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/em\u003e, Ivy Pochoda combines intensely vivid prose with breathtaking psychological insight to explore a cast of solitary souls, pulled by family, love, betrayal, and hope, who yearn for a chance to break free.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/i\u003e is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDennis Lehane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ivy Pochoda makes the saltiness of Brooklyn’s Red Hook come to life so vividly that every time I looked up from the pages of this intoxicating novel, I was surprised not to be there. Reading \u003ci\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/i\u003e, imbued as it is with mystery and danger, I am utterly convinced that Pochoda is herself a medium, capable of communicating across boundaries real and imagined, across noisy courtyards and over rough waves. She is simply too good at hearing voices-and sharing them-for that not to be the case.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmma Straub, author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ivy Pochoda makes the saltiness of Brooklyn’s Red Hook come to life so vividly that every time I looked up from the pages of this intoxicating novel, I was surprised not to be there. \u003ci\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/i\u003e is imbued with mystery and danger. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmma Straub, author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/i\u003e explores a community’s response to tragedy with crystalline prose, a dose of the uncanny, and an unblinking eye for both human frailty and resilience. Marvelous.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Harkness, bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/i\u003e explores a community’s response to tragedy with crystalline prose, a dose of the uncanny, and an unblinking eye for both human frailty and resilience. Marvelous.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Harkness, bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pochoda’s premise is inspired, the novel that unfolds even more so. Rich characters, surprising shifts of plot and mood. I loved it.” -Lionel Shriver, award winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLionel Shriver, award winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Utterly transporting.”-\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fans of Richard Price will immediately recognize his New York here, with its barely concealed ethnic tensions played out on a landscape of grit sprinkled with flecks of beauty. . . .  Visitation Street is an impressive entry into the field . . . of female suspense novelists — among them, Tana French, Laura Lippman and Kate Atkinson—who who are arguably writing more serious genre fiction than their male counterparts.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Masterful . . . a novel that pulls you deeper and deeper along in its powerful current. . . . While Pochoda brilliantly depicts the grime and submerged violence of Red Hook, she also soars above it, showing us the powerful aspirations of characters who hope and dream despite every reason not to. Like Lehane, Pochoda is an author with a profound understanding of human resilience, our indefatigable determination to seek light through the darkness. Her characters don’t want to be rich, but to find their better selves, move beyond their limited circumstances. In Pochoda’s telling, these aspirations are heroic.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A good story . . . an urban drama with shocking secrets at its heart. . . . Visitation Street contains elements of both mystery and ghost story. But thanks to Pochoda’s lucid style and her gift for psychological exploration, the novel transcends genre to become a poignant chronicle of loss, isolation and the human need to wrest meaning from the senseless workings of chance.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pochoda doesn’t need the conventions of genre fiction to tell a compelling story. . . . With deep insight and a merciless eye, the author has created a cast of richly imagined characters who, in turn, bring the fading community of Red Hook to vivid life. This is the kind of novel the reader closes reluctantly, wishing it were possible to follow the characters into the future and make sure everything turns out well for them.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There are certainly mystery elements in this deeply nuanced, well-crafted tale that has the disappearance of a teenage girl at its core. However, it is more of a character-driven work, somewhat reminiscent of Lawrence Block’s Small Town in its kaleidoscopic snapshot of a Brooklyn neighborhood and its residents.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookreporter.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[R]iveting...will keep readers enthralled until the final page. The prose is so lyrical and detailed that readers will easily imagine themselves in Red Hook.  A great read for those who enjoy urban mysteries and thrillers with a literary flair.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Visitation Street has a wonderfully eerie and intriguing premise...but it’s the evocation of place, the spot-on rendering of a diverse cast of characters, and the poetic pitch of the writing that elevates the book into the sphere of literature.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“VISITATION STREET is a quiet, literary thriller told in lyrical, exacting prose. It’s in the vein of Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” or Alice Sebold’s “The Lovely Bones”--Los Angeles Times” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A powerfully beautiful novel” \u003cb\u003e- Marilyn Stasio, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A stunner of a literary thriller. Grade A-” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e-Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rich with characters and mood . . . Red Hook itself feels like a character-hard-worn, isolated from the rest of New York, left behind and forgotten. A terrific story in the vein of Dennis Lehane’s fiction.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/i\u003e immersed me completely in the neighborhood of Red Hook, and brought its inhabitants to life in beautiful, haunting prose. Ivy Pochoda brings forth the full palette of human emotions in this gripping urban drama, a story that hurts you on one page and gives you hope on the next. A marvelous novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Koryta, award winning author of So Cold the River\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/i\u003e [is] beautiful, haunting. Ivy Pochoda brings forth the full palette of human emotions in this gripping urban drama, a story that hurts you on one page and gives you hope on the next. A marvelous novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Koryta, award winning author of So Cold the River\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Exquisitely written, Pochoda’s poignant second novel examines how residents of Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood deal with grief, urban development, loss, and teenage angst. … Pochoda couples a raw-edged, lyrical look at characters’ innermost fears with an evocative view of Red Hook.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dennis Lehane Books\/Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888164565221,"sku":"NP9780062249890","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062249890.jpg?v=1730228307","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/visitation-street-isbn-9780062249890","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}