Review of “The Double Bind” by Chris Bohjalian
I finished reading “The Double Bind” by Chris Bohjalian last night and I must tell you about it. This New York Times Bestseller is a strange and frightening story with a shocker ending. Laurel Estebrook is a college student and avid bicyclist who is attacked by two men on a dirt road in a secluded section of the woods in Underhill, Vermont. But that was seven years before the book’s beginning, though Laurel’s personality is shaped by her terrible experience.
Laurel works at a homeless shelter called BEDS. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a down on his luck former photographer who, after he dies, they discover has left a cache of photographs of famous people, like Muddy Waters, Jay Gatsby, Flip Wilson, and many other celebrities. But one picture in the collection sends Laurel on a journey that will ultimately destroy her sanity. There is a picture of her, on her bicycle, on the road where she was attacked seven years before.
The twists and turns in this book made me stay up late night after night reading it. I won’t tell you the ending, but you will be stunned. Read this one.
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