![]() The Hollows, he tells us, is a town rife with dark secrets, "a sucking vortex. ![]() Some of Crazy Love You takes place in New York City fans of Unger's recent books will recognize its other setting, a small village in upstate New York that was Ian's boyhood home. Every time I thought I had a handle on what was really happening and why, she gave the plot another sly twist that left me scrambling to catch up. Unger, a bestselling thriller author who lives in Clearwater, has long been adept at writing suspenseful, surprising novels, and Crazy Love You ups the ante. The only one who's not happy, it seems, is Priss. Ian is in love with her and almost as in love with her doting parents, Julia and Binky, who welcome him warmly to their charmed inner circle - a powerful attraction for a young man who grew up mostly on his own, with an absent mother and a father busy running a contracting business. ![]() ![]() Well, yes, except that Ian, now a nerdy-cute hipster with a healthy paycheck and a Tribeca loft, was as a small-town kid morbidly obese, peculiar and picked upon.Īnd his best friend was a girl named Priss, who stood by him, for better or worse, through not only high school struggles but a terrible event in his childhood that left his baby sister dead and his mother permanently institutionalized.Īs the novel opens, it's better days for Ian - not only is Fatboy and Priss a success, but he has met Megan, a sweet, supportive young woman. ![]()
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