Krysten ritter novel6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() “I relate to the feelings - I think we all do - of maybe being an outcast, a loner, falling through the cracks,” she says. While she admittedly didn’t encounter the same extent of bullying that her character did growing up - it IS a work of fiction, after all - the author says she can, at the very least, relate to her feelings. “I sort of created Abby as a role for myself.” “I thought a lot about my protagonist,” Ritter explains. But going home will mean facing her own inner demons, including an abusive father and a clique of mean girls who bulled her during her teenage years before their ringleader, Kaycee Mitchell, mysteriously got sick and ran away. An environmental lawyer living in Chicago, Abby is called back to her rural hometown in Indiana after a 10-year absence to investigate a civil lawsuit against a powerful plastic corporation that’s wreaking havoc on the local environment. ![]() She brought a lot of herself to the novel’s heroine, Abby Williams, as well. ![]()
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