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The big rewind

by Libby Cudmore

Published 2016241 pagesISBN 978-0-0624-0353-7

"Listening to someone else's mix tapes is a huge breach of trust. But KitKat was dead ... and curiosity got the better of me"--Page 4 of cover. Jett Bennett moved to New York to become a music journalist; she has a temp gig as a proofreader, but at least she's fitting in with the artists and musicians in the tragically hip Brooklyn neighborhood she calls home. When Jett opens up her mail and finds a mix tape meant for her neighbor, KitKat, a local queen bee renowned for her enhanced baked goods and retro videogame collection, everything changes. Now Jett is on the hunt for a killer-- and for the truths hidden within her own heart.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Reading lengthA shorter read241 pages in this edition
Publication eraContemporaryFirst published or edition dated 2016
Primary categoryFictionExplore similar books below
ISBN-13
978-0-0624-0353-7
Language
English
Edition record
OL26458147M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

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