title: Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder
author:  Amy Butcher 
description: This gripping memoir is every bit as chilling as the darkestGillian Flynnnovelexcept this nonfiction account is based entirely on real events It's emotional, powerful, and, oddly enough, beautiful. <b>Lindsey Eidell, <i>Glamour</i></b><br /><br /><i></i>Enthralling, thought provoking, and deeply empathic, <i>Visiting Hours </i>explores how loss and trauma affects everyone in its periphery. <b><i>Biographile </i></b><br /><br />A gripping and poignant memoir. <i><b>Kirkus </b></i><br /><br />Riveting and visceral. <b>Mardi Jo Link, <i>The Minneapolis Star Tribune</i></b><br /><br /> I couldnt put down this April release, <i>Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder</i>, by Amy Butcher. Their senior year at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, Amys good friend Kevin walks her home, returns to his apartment and stabs to death his ex-girlfriend. How such a dastardly act affects their friendship  or how it might affect any friendship of our own  kept me riveted.<b> Dannye Romine Powell, <i>The Charlotte Observer<br /><br /></i></b>Butcher is strongest in the final chapters, when her eyes turn outward, investigating Schaeffers story in light of our countrys alarming suicide rate. Her research offers a tragic portrait of the turn of events that left one young woman dead and another forever changed. <i><b>The New York Times Book Review</b></i><br /><br />There are horrors in <i>Visiting Hours</i>some of them emotional, some incomprehensibly not. But what rises above it all in this exhilaratingly honest and brutal debut is what might be the books most disturbingly beautiful element: its tribute to memory, its testament of love, and its wide-eyed inquiry into just how long those two things really last. <b>John DAgata, author of <i>About a Mountain </i></b><br /><br /> Amy Butcher asks the two hardest questions: what do we mean to ourselves and what do we mean to each other? She asks in innocence and responds with hard earned experience and wisdom to share. You will need to give <i>Visiting Hours</i> away and buy another for yourself so you have someone to talk to about it. You will keep an eye out for this writer and what she will do next. It is not right that she is so smart, so talented and so young all at the same time. Yes, hers is a debut to envy and here we are at the very beginning. <b>Robert Olmstead, author of <i>Coal Black Horse </i></b><br /><br /> <i>Visiting Hours</i> is the culmination of Amy Butchers many talents: beautifully dense yet accessible prose rendered with complete honesty. She will make you question everyone youve ever thought youve known. <b>Mary Miller, author of <i>The Last Days of California</i></b> <br /><br />"Amy Butcher has written an incredible portrait of trauma. In crisp, beautiful pose, Butcher revisits an extraordinary and terrible night that will come to haunt and trouble her forever. What is the nature of traumatic memory? Whose sadness do we have claim to? What can be done when people we love do terrible things? Butcher's generous and honest meditation on how traumatic memory can shape ordinary lives will make you a better and more empathetic person." <b>--Jen Percy, author of <i>Demon Camp<br /><br /> </i></b><i>Visiting Hours</i> is a mystery of the highest order, not merely a whodunit, as we know from the outset who killed whom, but a mystery of the human heart, exploring the ambiguous motivations of an otherwise gentle man who became a murderer and a young woman who couldnt stop being his friend. A page turner for its pathos and gorgeous attention to language, a coming of age story like no other, Amy Butcher has written a story of no easy answers and unparalleled sensitivity. <b>Robin Hemley, author of <i>Do Over </i></b>
zlib_text: Probed: The Encounter
  by Alexis Adaire
  
  Copyright © 2013 by Alexis Adaire
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the
  products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual
  persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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  Table of Contents
  Title Page
  Copyright Page
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  More From Alexis Adaire
  Alexis Adaire Biography
  
  Chapter 1
  “I’m going home with him. You gonna be okay?”
  Amy Collins wasn’t surprised. She’d been watching her friend Jill and whatever-his-name-is for
  the last hour, slow dancing at the bar. 