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The Church of Dead Girls (1997)

por Stephen Dobyns

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With the first disappearance, the townspeople begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. The Church of Dead Girls displays Stephen Dobyns' remarkable gifts for exploring human nature, probing the ruinous effects of suspicion. As panic mounts and citizens take the law into their own hands, no one is immune, and old rumors, old angers, and old hungers come to the surface to reveal the secret history of a seemingly genteel town and the dark impulses of its inhabitants.… (mais)
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Wow. That was a wild ride from start to finish. Intense, complex and unique, I thoroughly devoured The Church of Dead Girls. I often read on my walk to work in the morning but today I sat down at my desk and just had to finish the last few pages, I absolutely could not tear my eyes away from the page.

Ostensibly, The Church of Dead Girls is about the disappearance of three girls in a small New York town above the Finger Lakes. Told from the outsider perspective of a high school science teacher, the lives and secrets of his fellow citizens are revealed slowly, their layers peeled away as the tension between friends and neighbours ratchets up. The abduction of the girls is both horrific and a catalyst, the townfolk growing increasingly mad with frustration and suspicion, and fear. Not only fear of their daughter being taken next, but of their secret desires, their illicit actions being exposed and revealed to the cruel eye of the town's populace, the only judge that matters.

As I was reading I was often reminded of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, to which The Church of Dead Girls seems to be a spiritual precursor. There's a creeping, unsettling feeling that only grows as you advance in the story. Like Sharp Objects the disappearance and probable murders of the missing girls, barely in their teenage years, is only part of a larger whole. The narrator relates decades worth of information, gleaned from years of personal interactions or heard secondhand from his friends, piecing together the story from what he's been told into a rich, meaty narrative.

The real story that lurks behind the abduction of the three teenage girls is the unknowable nature of the other. Even those closest to us have their secrets, the thoughts they keep to themselves, a persona they show the world that reflects only a portion of their true self. The mercurial nature of a community influenced by gossip and speculation, suspicion and fear, is as fascinating as it is frustrating. The 'other' is always targeted, the African college professor and his Marxist reading group, gay men, anyone who stands out from the 'norm' suffering from hysterical scapegoating.

Overall, The Church of Dead Girls is slow, but taut, deftly portraying the way a small community operates, the way lives intersect and affect each other. The way the town reacts to the missing girls as scarring and long-lasting as the abductions themselves, mob mentality showing the unintended dark sides of even the innocent. ( )
  xaverie | Apr 3, 2023 |
Dit boek begint heel apart. Er is een verteller die zelf ook een rol speelt in het hele verhaal. Hij beschrijft alles tot in de details. Hoe het stadje Aurelius eruit ziet, hoe de mensen er uit zien en wat ze doen voor de kost, hun karakter en hoe ze volgens hem in het leven staan. Dat maakt de schrijfstijl een beetje afstandelijk maar het boek 'grows on you'.
Als er een meisje verdwijnt zijn de inwoners van Aurelius er vast van overtuigd dat het iemand van buiten de stad moet zijn geweest. Of iemand van die ene groep die Huoari Chihani, een docent aan de middelbare school met marxistische ideeën, heeft gevormd.
Als het tweede meisje verdwijnt begint men de eigen inwoners met achterdocht te bekijken en worden de tegenstellingen heftiger. Allerlei kleine voorvallen en vechtpartijen en andere pesterijen zorgen er voor dat niemand meer graag het huis uitgaat. Ouders laten hun dochters niet meer alleen weg gaan en omdat er niemand meer naar winkels gaat, sluiten sommigen veel vroeger, de bioscoop gaat dicht, barretjes en cafe's krijgen steeds minder klandizie.
Een groep ouders, waar ook de ouders van de twee meisjes bij horen, beginnen hun eigen onderzoek en lopen daarmee de politie in de weg.
Na de verdwijning van het derde meisje slaan de stoppen door en gaat het echt fout.
Het einde heeft een heel aparte twist.

Ik vond vooral de manier waarop de naamloze verteller het verhaal brengt heel goed gedaan. Dat voegt maar mijn mening echt iets aan het verhaal toe. Je ziet gewoon dat het rustige en tevreden leven van het dorp alleen maar aan de oppervlakte zo lijkt en na elke gebeurtenis komt de ware aard van de inwoners boven drijven. Jaloezie en afgunst, roddel en achterklap, beschuldigingen die op niets gebaseerd zijn, homofobie, ontrouw en geheimen, dat alles wordt steeds duidelijker te zien, ( )
  connie53 | Mar 24, 2022 |
Utterly engrossing psychological thriller with murders [one committed before our eyes] and the disappearance of three teenage girls. Massive hunts go on for each of them in case they may have been abducted and are still alive. But, in each case their clothes, laundered and neatly folded, and severed left hands are returned to the townspeople. We see the unpleasant details in the everyday life of this small upstate New York town, the fictional Aurelius, which add to the creepy atmosphere. Study of how suspicion tears a once close4-knit town apart ( )
  janerawoof | Jun 10, 2021 |
Definitely not the usual thriller with serial killer that one would expect. Forget the sensationalism of gruesome crime scene description...this is more of a psychological study of a small town and what happens when fear turns each one against the "different ones". A community that breaks down and shows how mankind is not so different from the animals it likes to think are inferior.

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  MissYowlYY | Jun 12, 2020 |
Truly excellent psychological thriller that is also the tale of a small town and the insidiousness of suspicion. While others found the backstory of the town inhabitants too slow, I actually loved it -- the relationships were drawn so carefully and how people connect with and relate to each other does impact the plot. Well-written saga of a town. Insightful and true small-town politics and resistance to change. Good mystery, too. ( )
  sparemethecensor | Feb 4, 2017 |
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With the first disappearance, the townspeople begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. The Church of Dead Girls displays Stephen Dobyns' remarkable gifts for exploring human nature, probing the ruinous effects of suspicion. As panic mounts and citizens take the law into their own hands, no one is immune, and old rumors, old angers, and old hungers come to the surface to reveal the secret history of a seemingly genteel town and the dark impulses of its inhabitants.

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