The Lost Night: A Novel
Andrea Bartz
Paperback
(Random House LCC US, Feb. 26, 2019)
What really happened the night Edie died? Ten years later, her best friend Lindsay will learn just how unprepared she is for the truth. In 2009, in a loft complex in Bushwick, Edie is the shining star of a group of recent college graduates. Seductive, mercurial, and beguiling, Edie has the social world in her thrall, and she and her best friends treat New York like a playground. When she commits suicide at the end of a long, drunken night, no one can quite believe it. But an overwhelming mix of grief, shock, and long-standing resentment force each friend into their own corner, and, for years, that's where they stay. A decade later, Lindsay is content with her life and has come a long way from the drug-addled world of Calhoun Lofts. She has a thriving career in magazines, lives in a cosy apartment, and has true adult friendships. But when a chance reunion leads Lindsay to discover an unsettling video from that terrible, hazy night, she starts to wonder if Edie was actually murdered--and, worse perhaps, if she herself was involved. As she rifles through those months in 2009--combing through case files, old technology, and her fractured memory--Lindsay is forced to confront the demons of her own violent history to bring the truth to light.