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The God of the Woods A Novel

Liz Moore

A Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a...

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The host, Jonquilyn Hill, mentioned she had just finished reading this book.

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I'm your host, Ujahna Glin-Hill, and I just finished The God of the Woods.

— Episode: The summer I turned into a bookworm

Episode: The summer I turned into a bookworm

The host, Jonquilyn Hill, mentioned she had just finished reading this book.

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I'm your host, Ujahna Glin-Hill, and I just finished The God of the Woods.

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The book was highlighted as the author’s latest bestseller, focusing on a missing girl at an Adirondack summer camp, and was noted for being adapted into a Netflix series. Host Dave Davies relayed critic Maureen Corrigan’s praise, saying she felt completely immersed in its rich fictional world, and the author discussed the title’s evolution from a self‑help sounding name. The overall tone was enthusiastic, presenting the novel as a compelling and immersive read.

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She described it as a gothicexcess story about two children from a wealthy family who disappear from a camp in the Adirondacks.

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Liz Moore's The God of the Woods is something stranger and unforgettable, a gothicexcess about two children from the wealthy Van Laar family disappearing from a camp in the Adirondacks.

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A gothictinged story about two missing Van Laar children in the Adirondacks, following Moore's earlier acclaimed novel Long Bright River.

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Liz Moore's The God of the Woods has a touch of gothic excess about Moore's story, beginning with the premise that not one, but two children from the wealthy Van Laar family disappear from a camp in the Adirondacks some 14 years apart. Moore's previous book, Long Bright River, was a superb novel about the opioid crisis in Philadelphia.

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The literary suspense novel was praised for its gothic excess and intricate plot involving missing children at a summer camp.

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Liz Moore's extraordinary new literary suspense novel called The God of the Woods reminds me of Donna Tartt's 1992 debut, The Secret History. Both are thick, intricate novels featuring young people isolated in enclosed worlds ... The God of the Woods is something weirder and stranger and unforgettable.

Episode: ‘The God of the Woods’ Author Liz Moore

The latest bestseller by the author centers on a missing girl at a summer camp located in the Adirondacks. One critic mentioned being thoroughly submerged in the rich fictional world for hours after reading it. The book was available in paperback as of the broadcast date.

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Our book critic Maureen Corrigan said when she read it, quote, I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world that for hours I barely came up for air.

Liz Moore's latest novel, The God of the Woods, is now available in paperback.

Episode: ‘The God of the Woods’ Author Liz Moore

This was the author's latest bestseller, which centers on a missing girl at a summer camp in the Adirondacks and was announced to be adapted into a Netflix TV series. The original title was 'Self-Reliance,' but it was changed because the publisher felt it sounded too much like a self-help book. The final title refers to the Greek god Pan, who was said to make people feel lost in the woods.

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Our book critic Maureen Corrigan said when she read it, quote, I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world that for hours I barely came up for air.

Liz Moore's latest bestseller, The God of the Woods, is set in a remote children's camp in the Adirondacks, where a young camper goes mysteriously missing.

The original title of the novel was not The God of the Woods. I called it self-reliance for the entire time that I was writing it, up to about a year before its publication when everybody at Riverhead Books simultaneously broke the news to me that they hated the title self-reliance, which I don't blame them for.

The word Adirondack actually means 'The Bark Eaters,' which was a title she entertained.

Liz Moore's latest novel, The God of the Woods, is now available in paperback.

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It was a mystery about a child who went missing from a remote Adirondack children's camp, exploring class conflict and survival skills.

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I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world that for hours I barely came up for air.

The God of the Woods centers on one of these great camps. It's fictional, and the family in question is fictional. And just down the hill from the great camp is a summer camp from which their own 13yearold daughter goes missing.

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