Summary Of The Book 'No Such Person'

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The book No Such Person is about a girl named Miranda. Miranda is accused of shooting someone in the woods behind her house, she believes that she is innocent but she questions if she is or not. One day Miranda was down at the river behind her house and she said two guys on a boat so she grabbed her binoculars and focused them of the two guys, then she saw that the driver of the boat intentionally dumped his friend (the skier) in the path of a barge. Miranda prayed that the diver dived under the water to get out of the path of the barge she was hoping that he was swimming to shore, but he wasn’t he didn’t make it. In the story the same guy murdered someone in the woods behind Miranda’s house and the cops found the gun and thought “Oh

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