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.
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