"The Mountain Story," by Lori Lansens. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2015. 312 pages. $26.Intertwining plotlines vie for urgency in Lori Lansens' nail biter, "The Mountain Story." And though her characters change or grow, astute plotting drives this intense story of three women and a suicidal young man who are strangers one moment and acutely interdependent the next. The group members, each with serious baggage, find themselves lost on a remote, only partially mapped mountain in late fall. [...]
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