No One Tells Everything eBook Rae Meadows
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The author who took readers into the strange and fascinating world of Salt Lake City escort services (in Calling Out) now returns to New York, where a single woman becomes inexplicably drawn to a college student accused of murder.
Grace drinks alone in the same bar every night, confides in her longtime bartender, and observes New York City life from the sidelines. A copy editor in her mid-thirties, she is estranged from her family and, in many ways, from herself. But when a local coed is found dead, and a college student from Grace’s hometown is arrested for the murder, something within her stirs. Though the media has portrayed the boy as a spoiled rich kid who killed as revenge for a rebuffed sexual advance, Grace senses deeper layers to the story.
Consumed by discovering the truth behind the case, Grace strikes up an unlikely friendship with the accused murderer, Charles. Barely sleeping and slipping further behind at work, she inadvertently dredges up dark parts of her own childhood, including the death of her younger sister twenty-five years earlier. And when Grace returns to her childhood home in Ohio, intending to chase the mystery surrounding Charles, she finds that the mystery she is chasing is actually her own.
No One Tells Everything eBook Rae Meadows
This is such a unique, darkly compelling yet beautiful story. It goes to all the terrifying, lonely, alienated places we all fear and avoid with all of our might. A woman with a seemingly 'normal' life - a good job, a nice family - is captivated by a young man accused of murder. She is obviously on the edge - she drinks too much, doesn't have any friends, engages in promiscuous and dangerous sex. But on the surface has nothing in common with an accused murderer. Yet, she begins a relationship with him via letters and phone calls while he awaits his trial from prison. Why is she so drawn to him? What in this monster, could she possibly relate to? Her compulsion to understand him is slowly revealed, painting a terrible and honest portrait of the self-loathing and boundless loneliness that sometimes is what resides at the heart of what it means to be human.If you appreciate the beauty in sad stories, you'll love this book.
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No One Tells Everything eBook Rae Meadows Reviews
Obsession with the perpetrator of a sensational crime--a well-publicized and yet foreign (to me) phenomena--becomes wholly human in Grace, the protagonist of this richly layered novel. After Charles Raggat is arrested for the murder of a fellow college student, Grace becomes obsessed with finding out who he really is, teasing out the parts of him that the media doesn't capture.
Her obsession leads her to exchange letters with Charles and to embark upon her own investigation. A dark and deservedly sympathetic exploration of both Grace and Charles follows as we learn about their pasts and the events that led them to the present. The novel takes the reader into the heart of grief, but also journeys toward hope and seeks an understanding of redemption.
The bookshelf of any reader who enjoys thoughtful fiction unafraid to explore the darker sides of the human condition is incomplete without this novel.
I really wanted to like this book; the subject matter is exactly the type of novel I enjoy. Unfortunately, Grace is so morose and spiteful; I couldn't stand her. The parts that contained interaction with her parents were especially difficult to read. Grace is a copywriter in New York, and has no friends except for her bartender; she spends most nights drinking wine at a local bar. Her manager at work seems sincerely interested in pursuing a relationship with her, but Grace is too preoccupied with a murder she has been following; she soon becomes obsessed with getting to know the accused through letters and phone calls. I understand the author's intent to weave Grace's painful past with the accused murderer's life, but it isn't really an interesting story. There is no plot, and no reason for Grace to do the things she does. I wouldn't recommend this book.
"What's the worst thing you've ever done?" asks Grace, the heroine of NO ONE TELLS EVERYTHING, late in the novel. "What if that one thing, that one moment of darkness or selfishness was your definer?" For Grace, that's exactly what has happened to her life. By day, this attractive woman in her early 30s is stuck in a dead-end copyediting job at a sensational weekly news magazine. By night, she drinks alone at a neighborhood bar whose bartender is her only friend. Drink, and the casual sex that often accompanies it, helps her blot out her past. Unable to forge real relationships or forget her childhood disappointments, Grace is stuck.
That is, until she hears about the brutal murder of an attractive, popular Long Island female college student, supposedly by a male classmate whose advances she rejected. Grace feels a strange connection to Charles Raggatt, the awkward, unpopular young man accused of the crime, even before she learns that Charles grew up in a posh Cleveland suburb right next to the one where Grace herself was raised. Suddenly, as she delves into Charles's history, interviewing his acquaintances from high school and college, she has a project, one that takes her away from her stifling job and her pathetic personal life --- but that also takes her back to a place in her own life she had hoped was buried forever.
Grace must come to terms with her own past even more when a family emergency calls her back to Cleveland. There she's forced to recall the accidental death of her sister Callie when both were just children. Ever since, Grace has faced guilt for destroying her seemingly perfect family, as well as the perception that the wrong daughter --- beautiful, sunny, loveable Callie rather than awkward, lonely, difficult Grace --- died that day. As Grace uses her time in Ohio to dig deeper into Charles's story, she also tears the polished but fragile veneer off her own family story, realizing that below the "perfect" suburban existence lurks some dark secrets --- including one that Grace herself has been hiding for decades.
NO ONE TELLS EVERYTHING, Rae Meadows's second work of fiction, is, on the surface, a murder mystery with a most unusual investigator. Along the way, however, the mystery plot becomes secondary to the difficult, painful stories of personal discovery that form the real crux of the novel. As Grace learns more of Charles's childhood and adolescence (stories that are conveyed to the reader as flashbacks from Charles's point of view), she also is drawn, kicking and screaming (and drinking), into her own painful family and personal history.
Although the mystery tale will (at least for whodunit fans) be less than suspenseful or satisfactory, Grace's own story manages to be both. A compelling, damaged heroine who might still have a chance for healing, Grace demonstrates that in researching another damaged soul's story, she has a chance to find --- and save --- herself.
--- Reviewed by Norah Piehl
I finished it but wanted to stop reading. Depressing and somewhat pointless. I've read other Rae Meadows that I liked better.
This is such a unique, darkly compelling yet beautiful story. It goes to all the terrifying, lonely, alienated places we all fear and avoid with all of our might. A woman with a seemingly 'normal' life - a good job, a nice family - is captivated by a young man accused of murder. She is obviously on the edge - she drinks too much, doesn't have any friends, engages in promiscuous and dangerous sex. But on the surface has nothing in common with an accused murderer. Yet, she begins a relationship with him via letters and phone calls while he awaits his trial from prison. Why is she so drawn to him? What in this monster, could she possibly relate to? Her compulsion to understand him is slowly revealed, painting a terrible and honest portrait of the self-loathing and boundless loneliness that sometimes is what resides at the heart of what it means to be human.
If you appreciate the beauty in sad stories, you'll love this book.
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