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14歲的Cindy來自一個破碎的家庭，母親常常離家數月無消無息，留下兩個哥哥和她相依為命，哥哥打雜換來了微薄薪資，和偶爾出現的社工支援是三人唯有的收入來源，生活只能如此勉強度過，直到鄰居家的女兒失蹤，才意外為三人帶來曙光。
Jude是個相當受歡迎卻又複雜的女孩，Cindy以往總是覺得自己不可能成為那樣的女孩。Jude的母親酗酒成性，在她失蹤後更是難以控制自己，誤將找上門的Cindy認成Jude，突如而來的母愛、作夢也想不到的書和藝術品，卻是Cindy夢寐以求的寶物，她希望這個假象繼續下去，卻為了意外被滿足的渴望，而做出了一個錯誤的決定。
以渴望和心碎作為框架的一本精彩小說，將生活的絕望，以及因此而起的強烈慾望寫得精細，寫出一個長期被忽視的女孩，第一次感受到自己的選擇居然是那麼有力的震撼。
One summer, a teenager disappears from Deep Valley, Pennsylvania. Jude is beautiful, intelligent, and mixed race. The cops search for her - but not as hard as they would if she were a white girl. Watching this mystery unfold is Cindy, a younger girl from a white trash family, who has idolised Jude for years. And so, in the absence of anyone to give a damn about her, Cindy starts to slip out of her own life and into the space Jude left behind...
Marilou Is Everywhere is a story about the desperation to escape - and the terrible, intimate crimes we commit to do so. Swimming in the rich melancholia of rural America, it is a fall from grace, a moral provocation, and a heartbreaking account of life in the margins.