โ Scribed by Jacquelyn Mitchard
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A blockbustera rich, moving and altogether stunning first novel. Readers will find this compelling and heartbreaking story sure to be compared to The Good Mother impossible to put down. Publishers Weekly
Watch your brother, says Beth Cappadora to her seven-year-old son Vincent. Only minutes later she turns again and asks, Wheres Ben? Its the moment that every mother fears: for three-year-old Ben is gone. And no one can find him.
Despite a police search that becomes a nationwide obsession, Ben has vanished, leaving behind a family that will be torn apart with anguish. Until, nine years later, the undreamed-of happens: a twelve-year-old boy knocks on their door a boy who does not know them, but who will irrevocably twist their lives a second time
The horror of losing a child is somehow made worse when the case goes unsolved for nearly a decade, reports Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard in this searing first novel. In it, 3-year-old Ben Cappadora is kidnapped from a hotel lobby where his mother is checking into her 15th high school reunion. His disappearance tears the family apart and invokes separate experiences of anguish, denial, and self-blame. Marital problems and delinquency in Ben's older brother (in charge of him the day of his kidnapping) ensue. Mitchard depicts the family's friction and torment--along with many gritty realities of family life--with the candour of a journalist and compassion of someone who has seemingly been there. International publishing and film rights sold fast on this one--it's a blockbuster.
So well observed and perceptive its hard to shy away from masterfully paced A story of one familys slow tumble back into light.
Los Angeles Times
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780140286274
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