![]() Her main concerns surround friendship, her plans post-high school, and her hope of finding a boyfriend taller than she is who will love her for her personality. Nora Cunningham is a rather homely, taller-than-average 16-year-old girl in the fictional suburb of Elmgrove, Maryland in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() The book received largely positive reviews for the candid exploration of issues like death, crime, love, sexuality and friendship. In large part based on Hahn's own experiences with a real-life murder case from suburban Baltimore in 1955, the book is fictional, and follows protagonist Nora Cunningham, a high school junior mature beyond her years who is troubled by the implications of a horrific double-murder that occurs in her neighbourhood in the 1950s. Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls is a 2012 American coming-of-age young adult historical fiction novel written by Mary Downing Hahn. ![]()
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