the life and death of sophie stark by anna north extract

7/23/2019 The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North Extract

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First published as an ebook i

by Weidenfeld &

The paperback edition fir

by Weidenfeld &

An imprint of the Orion PC li H Vi


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my family was one hundred perce

back, and I didnt fit in real well wi

I used to hang out with this guy na

Bean was a couple years older th

of high school to sell weed, and he


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kept saying he creeped her out, t

him. I said she was crazy, everyb

and Tommy, this guy I was sort

whole time. Finally I told her that

her these butterf ly earrings she lik


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to ourselves. So we were all sweaty

clothes when Bean came walking

with a look on his face Id never see

We need to leave, he said.

Why? I asked. Whats the ma


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fend for themselves, and took a job

taurant in Charlottesville.

Id been working there about

news that theyd found Staceys b

shore of Moncove Lake about a


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Allison was my best friend bac

is my fiance, Sarah Beth.

Sarah Beth extended her hand

on the other one. Bean had come u

ing a sweater and a collared shirt H


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I kept my back against the kitc

in quickly if I needed to.

Because Ive been keeping tra

moved here, and I knew where yo

see you


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Excuse me? I said. But she was Bean was actually my best friend i

him that because in third grade hed g

and had to go to the emergency room

that he had to stand in the back of th


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calling him a pussy when he couldnpid high school he couldnt wait to e

played football and shot deer with th

on his locker. About how all the gi

guys instead of him Beans rages w


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and saw Bean, panting, an awful guwrapped my arms around him and he

it seemed so important to let him kno

would still be his friend.

Bean and I didnt avoid each other


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to get away from himthat night leave. But also our fucking was less

and I came, and afterward he held m

kind of stillness. The next day I left

My first days in New York were


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nothing had happened, like he was juwhere I came from, that Id once had

a fucked-up cat and a life that, even

happy, still made a little bit of sense.

still he hadnt called I started wanti


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mom and dad and my sisters and thought they didnt at the time. Bu

story and have everybody know my

could fool peopleusually Brooklyn

told them about West Virginia I ha


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and wound his arm all the way arounside of my left breast.

Sure, I said. Ill be in your movi

Good, she said. Ill come by nex

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