This was a wonderful re-telling of the Chester Gillette murder that was also the basis for Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Told form the point of view of Mattie, a teenager working at a summer resort hoping to save enough for either college or marriage, depending on how the summer goes, the essential story of Grace Brown's murder by her lover is at the heart of the novel, but Mattie is also a fully developed character and her ambitions are notable. This was just so good.
