So Much Pretty (35 page)
Authors: Cara Hoffman
About the Author
Cara Hoffman grew up in an economically depressed town in upstate New York. She dropped out of high school, bought a one-way ticket to London with her savings, and spent the next three years working under-the-table jobs in Europe and the Middle East.
In the 1990s, Hoffman returned to the United States, became a mother, and began working as an investigative reporter at a daily newspaper. She covered New York State’s rural and Rust Belt communities for over a decade, reporting on environmental politics, county legislatures, and crime. In 2000 she received a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for her writing on the aesthetics of violence and its impact on children.
Hoffman lives in Manhattan with her son and works as a tutor at the Lower Eastside Girls Club.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011 by Cara Hoffman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hoffman, Cara.
So much pretty : a novel / Cara Hoffman.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.
p. cm.
1. Women—Fiction 2. Missing persons—Fiction. 3. Serial murderers—Fiction. 4. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. 5. Country life—New York (State). 6. Mystery fiction. I. Title. PS3608.04775S6 2011
813.6—dc22
2010027852
ISBN 978–1–4516–1675–0
ISBN 978–1–4516–1677–4 (ebook)
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