“One of the year’s buzziest debuts.”

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Years later, Claire is living in New York City when a fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy. For readers of Emma Cline’s The Girls and Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, Alexis Schaitkin’s Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that culminates in an emotionally powerful ending.