The Double Bind » (Reprint)

Perhaps the San Francisco Chronicle said it best: "Bohjalian's hallmark: ordinary people in heartbreaking circumstances behaving with grace and dignity." Since the selection of his dark novel Midwives for Oprah's Book Club back in 1998, Bohjalian has enjoyed mainstream success as one of today's most poignant novelists.

A psychological novel about obsession from the New York Times bestselling author of Before you Know Kindness.

Based on a true story. Laurel works at a homeless shelter, where she meets a man named Bobbie Crocker. Only recently homeless, he has a history of mental illness and a box of photographs he won't let anyone see. When he dies suddenly, Laurel opens the box to discover that he was once a successful photographer for the rich and famous. As Laurel searches deeper into Bobbie's former life she finds that the photographs expose a deeply hidden family secret.

Susan Salter Reynolds - Los Angeles Times

Artfully crafted, terrifying. . .Bohjalian has written a literary thriller. . .Laurel is an unforgettable, vulnerable, complicated character, as is Crocker. . .The pictures blur the line between reality and fiction, as photos so often do, making reality seem an even more precarious and dizzying height from which to read a work of fiction.