VACANCY | Kirkus Reviews

Key Takeaways

• It’s August 2005 in Hartless, a small, dusty town in the Texas Panhandle. Kindergarten teacher Helen McCabe, in her mid-50s, has just finished the first week of school, hoping that her class will help her find her mooring again. Her husband, Hal, recently died in a car crash; he drove into an intersection, just as a trailer truck was entering from the cross lane, and Helen thinks it might have been suicide. She vows that she’ll “never miss the signs of someone in trouble again.” Jillie Simpson,.
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