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Book · 2015
The Girl on the Train
A troubled commuter becomes entangled in the disappearance of a woman she watched from her train, forcing her to reconstruct unreliable memories and confront the lives behind familiar windows.
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The Girl on the Train is well-written and ingeniously constructed — perhaps a bit too ingeniously.The first-person narrator is now Rachel, now Anna, now Megan, and some of Megan’s soliloquies date from long before her disappearance — yet are strategically inserted between present-day chapters related by Rachel and Anna, making the reader feel a bit manipulated. But the portrait of Rachel as a chronic drunk who just might save herself by playing detective is rich and memorable.
Dennis Drabelle on The Washington Post One sign of this book’s ingenuity is the way key details are effortlessly omitted. And you’re not apt to miss them until the denouement, when it is pointed out that certain characters never appeared and supposed facts were never explained.
Janet Maslin on The New York Times
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