In chapters that alternate between the two women’s points of view, the past and the present unfold. What is clear is that Lucy is romantically obsessed with Alice and that Alice is afraid of her. “I had never, not once in the many moments that had occurred between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the dusty alleyways of Morocco, expected to see her again.” Alice and Lucy did not part on good terms there are repeated references to a horrible accident which will remain mysterious for some time. Then Lucy Mason, her one-time best friend and roommate at Bennington College, shows up unannounced on her doorstep. He vanishes every day into the city, which he adores, while Alice is afraid to go out at all, having once gotten lost in the flea market. “At first, I had told myself that Tangier wouldn’t be so terrible,” says Alice Shipley, a young wife dragged there by her unpleasant husband, John McAllister, who has married her for her money. In 1956, a pair of college roommates meets again in Tangier, with terrifying results.
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