Book Review: The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean

Part mystery, part darkly comic coming-of-age story, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean is a page-turning read with a dark, shimmering absence at its heart. Thirty-one-year-old Australian transplant Tikka Malloy is living an aimless life in Baltimore working at a lab and finding herself more and more distracted when she finds out her sister, Laura, has…