Visitation Street

<p>Chosen by Dennis Lehane for his eponymous imprint Ivy Pochoda's <em>Visitation Street</em> is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.</p><p>It'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.</p><p>And then they disappear. Only Val will survive washed ashore; semi-conscious in the weeds.</p><p>This 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.</p><p>Val 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.</p>