Books by Rebecca Godfrey and Complete Book Reviews
Rebecca Godfrey, Author . Perennial $11.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-009485-0
When Sara's hippie father catches her masturbating after school, he can't handle what he's witnessed. In one of this whip-smart debut's many surreal scenes, he decides to move out—effective immediately. Godfrey's novel is...
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Rebecca Godfrey, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (346p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1091-1
With a gripping journalistic style, novelist Godfrey (The Torn Skirt
) recounts the story behind a horrific murder in a small British Columbia town. One November night in 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk was savagely beaten and drowned under a waterway...
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Rebecca Godfrey, with Leslie Jamison. Random House, $29 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-53828-2
This magnificent posthumous novel from Godfrey (Under the Bridge), completed after her death in 2022 by Jamison, concerns the life of heiress and arts patron Peggy Guggenheim. Following her father’s death on the Titanic (a loss compounded by the...
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