Songs for the Missing

By Stewart O'Nan

Release : 2008-10-30

Genre : Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Family Fiction & Literature, Mysteries & Thrillers

Kind : ebook

4 (0 ratings)
A heartfelt family drama of loss and reconciliation with the unthinkable, from the author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself

Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community's efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missing. It soon deepens into an affecting portrait of a family trying desperately to hold onto itself and the memory of a daughter whose return becomes increasingly unlikely. Stark and honest, this is an intimate account of what happens behind the headlines of a very American tragedy.

Songs for the Missing

By Stewart O'Nan

Release : 2008-10-30

Genre : Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Family Fiction & Literature, Mysteries & Thrillers

Kind : ebook

4 (0 ratings)
A heartfelt family drama of loss and reconciliation with the unthinkable, from the author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself

Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community's efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missing. It soon deepens into an affecting portrait of a family trying desperately to hold onto itself and the memory of a daughter whose return becomes increasingly unlikely. Stark and honest, this is an intimate account of what happens behind the headlines of a very American tragedy.

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