![]() ![]() She subsists on a feeding tube.īefore that fateful night, Shelby “was a good girl with a 3.8 average who planned to go to NYU and study history.” The novel starts two years after the accident, when Shelby is so depressed that instead of going to college, she shaves her head and is still living with her parents. Helene, although alive, will never be the same. Shelby is left physically intact but emotionally damaged. ![]() Shelby is only a teenager when she gets in a terrible car accident on Long Island’s Route 110 while driving around with her best friend, Helene. That’s the case with Shelby Richmond, the main character in “Faithful,” the latest novel from Alice Hoffman, author of “The Marriage of Opposites,” “The Museum of Extraordinary Things” and other books. Survivor’s guilt can consume a person until she becomes a hollow version of her former self. ![]()
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