After Lisa's abduction, Meredith spends most days in her room. Then the man orders Lisa Bellow to stand and come with him, leaving Meredith the girl left behind. The minutes tick inexorably by, and Meredith lurches between comforting the sobbing Lisa and imagining her own impending death. Language eng Summary A masked man with a gun enters a sandwich shop in broad daylight, and Meredith Oliver suddenly finds herself ordered to the filthy floor, where she cowers face to face with her nemesis, Lisa Bellow, the most popular girl in her eighth grade class. Post-traumatic stress disorder in children - Fiction.

But when it becomes clear that Meredith understands her own role in picturing Lisa’s life, it becomes a fascinating examination of Meredith’s own fears, capability for kindness and ideas of comfort.Label The fall of Lisa Bellow Title The fall of Lisa Bellow Statement of responsibility Susan Perabo Creator She imagines every nightmare Lisa could be experiencing, blurring reality and initially lending the book a supernatural element that feels out of place. To get to that place of understanding, Meredith goes to dark lengths to envision what life is like for the missing teenager. As the reality of Lisa’s likely fate sinks in, Meredith views the girl less as “Lisa Bellows: Popular Bully” and more as a complex human being. Perabo succeeds in capturing the complex dynamics between middle school girls, writing Meredith and Lisa as nemeses bonded through years of familiarity and shared experiences.

In the weeks that follow, Meredith becomes obsessed with Lisa, reconsidering their shared childhood memories and adopting aspects of Lisa’s physicality and personality. Before fleeing, he commands Lisa to go with him, leaving Meredith in shock on the floor. But one day after school, Meredith and Lisa both end up at a local deli when a masked gunman enters to rob the cash register. Lisa Bellow, on the other hand, is a Queen Bee who dates high school lacrosse players and terrorizes her peers with cutting remarks.

She considers herself in the middle tier of the school’s social hierarchy, but she’s wracked with a level of anxiety any young teen would recognize. Meredith Oliver is an average 13-year-old girl with a close-knit circle of friends and an older brother she adores. Susan Perabo’s new novel, The Fall of Lisa Bellow, highlights the brain’s remarkable capacity to cope with extraordinary circumstances-including the aftermath of an abduction.

The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo