TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tucker,Nancy
TI  - The first day of Spring
SN  - 9780593191569 : HRD
AV  - PR6120.U256 F57 2021
U1  - 823/.92 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "A tense, psychological novel about what propels one 8-year-old girl to murder, and the complex ways this past chases her down in later life. Chrissie is eight years old and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling of it made her belly fizz like soda pop. Across her neighborhood, Chrissie's playmates and their parents are tearful and terrified. But Chrissie rules the roost - she's the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free candy, and now she has a secret, thrilling power she doesn't get to experience much at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. Twenty years later, Chrissie has a new identity and a new name. As "Julia," she is working in a cafe to support herself and her six-year-old daughter, Molly. All she wants is afresh start, but the past hasn't seemed to let her and Molly alone, and when, suddenly, their future together is threatened, Chrissie/Julia must find a new way to take matters into her own hands. Nancy Tucker leaves the reader breathless as she considerswhat happens when innocence and survival instincts collide. Tucker writes from professional experience in pediatric mental health, and she inhabits the voices of her young protagonists with a shocking authenticity and precision that moves the reader fromsympathy to humor to horror to heartbreak and back again"--
ER  -