The murder of Ivory Towle, a pregnant teenager in a small New Hampshire town, is the focus of the events of this novel, which explores the town from the point of view of a wide variety of its citizens, including a teacher, a policeman, one of the local punks, and Ivory`s friends. In the process, a picture emerges of a town full of hopeless, futureless characters--a town in which a death like Ivory`s is all too plausible.
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