Dead in Long Beach, California /

Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts a...

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Main Author: Blackburn, Venita (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux, [2024].
Edition:First edition.
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