The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore is a literary thriller about a teenage girl, Barbara Van Laar, who disappears from a summer camp in the Adirondacks in 1975, echoing the disappearance of her older brother years earlier.

The novel explores the secrets of the wealthy Van Laar family and the working-class community that serves them, weaving together multiple perspectives to create a layered mystery about class, privilege, and family trauma.