**From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? ** When Margaret's fiancΓ©, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on wit
Picture Me Gone
β Scribed by Meg Rosoff
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US;G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Printz Award-winning author Meg Rosoff's latest novel is a gorgeous and unforgettable page-turner about the relationship between parents and children, love and loss.
Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a roomβsensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions from clues that others overlook. So when her father's best friend, Matthew, goes missing from his upstate New York home, Mila and her beloved father travel from London to find him. She collects information about Matthew from his belongings, from his wife and baby, from the dog he left behind and from the ghosts of his pastβslowly piecing together the story everyone else has missed. But just when she's closest to solving the mystery, a shocking betrayal calls into question her trust in the one person she thought she could read best.
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