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Lost: A Novel
On a cold January morning Susan leaves her husband alone for a few minutes and returns to find him gone. Suffering from dementia, no longer able to dress or feed or wash himself, he has wandered alone into a frigid landscape with no sense of home or direction.
Lost.
Over the course of one weekend, the massive search for her husband brings Susan together with Jeff, a search and rescue expert and social worker preoccupied with his young wife’s betrayal. In Jeff’s care is Corey, a mute eleven-year-old boy who has been abandoned by his family after accidentally setting a tragic fire. As the temperature drops and the search and rescue effort threatens to become one of search and recovery, they each confront haunting memories and difficult choices that will have an unexpected impact on their collective future. .
From the intersection of these three lives emerges an arresting portrait of the shifting terrain of marriage and the devastating effects of physical and psychological damage. Written in spare, beautiful prose, Lost explores the lengths we will go to take care of someone, and the ways in which responsibility, love, and sorrow can bind people together..
Lost.
Over the course of one weekend, the massive search for her husband brings Susan together with Jeff, a search and rescue expert and social worker preoccupied with his young wife’s betrayal. In Jeff’s care is Corey, a mute eleven-year-old boy who has been abandoned by his family after accidentally setting a tragic fire. As the temperature drops and the search and rescue effort threatens to become one of search and recovery, they each confront haunting memories and difficult choices that will have an unexpected impact on their collective future. .
From the intersection of these three lives emerges an arresting portrait of the shifting terrain of marriage and the devastating effects of physical and psychological damage. Written in spare, beautiful prose, Lost explores the lengths we will go to take care of someone, and the ways in which responsibility, love, and sorrow can bind people together..
256 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2010
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About the author
Alice Lichtenstein
6 books43 followersAlice Lichtenstein graduated from Brown University and received her MFA from Boston University. She has received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction, the Barbara Demming Memorial Award for Fiction and has twice been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony.
Alice’s new novel, THE CRIME OF BEING, forthcoming from Upper Hand Press, November 2019, has already been called "A brilliant, riveting, and emotionally charged story about the crime of black life." (Jallicia Jolly, UM)
Her first novel, THE GENIUS OF THE WORLD (Zoland Books, 2000), recieved favorable reviews, most notably in The New York Times Book Review and on National Public Radio.
PEOPLE Magazine called Alice's second novel, LOST, (Scribner, 2010), "a great read" and NPR said, "LOST is a novel that delivers much reading pleasure." LOST was a long-list Finalist for the2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Lichtenstein’s short stories have appeared in several literary journals. Most recently, Revision, in Narrative Magazine (Fall 2018); Dead Friends in Post Road (Winter, 2010) and White Ladies in Short Story (Spring, 2010). These stories were nominated for Pushcart Prize Awards.
Alice lives in Oneonta, New York, where she teaches fiction-writing at Hartwick College, and in Surry, Maine.
Alice’s new novel, THE CRIME OF BEING, forthcoming from Upper Hand Press, November 2019, has already been called "A brilliant, riveting, and emotionally charged story about the crime of black life." (Jallicia Jolly, UM)
Her first novel, THE GENIUS OF THE WORLD (Zoland Books, 2000), recieved favorable reviews, most notably in The New York Times Book Review and on National Public Radio.
PEOPLE Magazine called Alice's second novel, LOST, (Scribner, 2010), "a great read" and NPR said, "LOST is a novel that delivers much reading pleasure." LOST was a long-list Finalist for the2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Lichtenstein’s short stories have appeared in several literary journals. Most recently, Revision, in Narrative Magazine (Fall 2018); Dead Friends in Post Road (Winter, 2010) and White Ladies in Short Story (Spring, 2010). These stories were nominated for Pushcart Prize Awards.
Alice lives in Oneonta, New York, where she teaches fiction-writing at Hartwick College, and in Surry, Maine.
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June 27, 2018
This is not a new release and reviews from years ago are all over the place rating-wise. I however, found this book to be true to life, insightful, emotional and honestly written. I read it in one pass while on a road trip and when I closed the book, I thought, “Well, that was quite well done.”
The different characters intersect together with the main focus being a search for an older gentleman with dementia, who goes missing in the frigid winter after walking out the front door while his wife stepped away. We get a good solid picture of what he was like and what their lives were like when he was healthy and then the decline. We learn about Susan, his wife and caretaker and can actually feel her fear and angst and loss of her work life and personal life. The guilt of an affair. The long distance absence of their son. The friends and acquaintances who have dropped off the radar because of the uncomfortableness and severity of the illness. The fact that Susan chose to move them to a different house in a small quiet town hoping that might help her husband’s mental situation/decline due to a less stimulating environment. The reader can truly feel her emotions, her frustrations and exhaustion of being on call and watchful and predicative of her husband’s behaviors and needs 24/7. It is overwhelming and very sad and she has no other help. As anyone who is physically and emotionally exhausted, she has difficulty taking care of business and being able to think some things through logically.
There are other characters who come into play in this story, and they are a good, different and interesting mix. There is a juvenile fire starter and a PTSD veteran with challenges and hardships of their own. Some readers may have an issue with the junior arsonist; if so, skip it. But it does tie into the story in more than one way, so it is a main thread. I felt like I was on the scene with the search and rescue team; the description and feelings of the people and the areas that were written about were done with such clarity.
This is a story of pain, illness, betrayal, loss, family, healing, survival, hope and love. Some things that we are or that we become in life are not always of our own making or of our choice, but instead are due to the failures of others or failure of our own body or our mind. And as this story shows, sometimes there are second chances to change that course.
The different characters intersect together with the main focus being a search for an older gentleman with dementia, who goes missing in the frigid winter after walking out the front door while his wife stepped away. We get a good solid picture of what he was like and what their lives were like when he was healthy and then the decline. We learn about Susan, his wife and caretaker and can actually feel her fear and angst and loss of her work life and personal life. The guilt of an affair. The long distance absence of their son. The friends and acquaintances who have dropped off the radar because of the uncomfortableness and severity of the illness. The fact that Susan chose to move them to a different house in a small quiet town hoping that might help her husband’s mental situation/decline due to a less stimulating environment. The reader can truly feel her emotions, her frustrations and exhaustion of being on call and watchful and predicative of her husband’s behaviors and needs 24/7. It is overwhelming and very sad and she has no other help. As anyone who is physically and emotionally exhausted, she has difficulty taking care of business and being able to think some things through logically.
There are other characters who come into play in this story, and they are a good, different and interesting mix. There is a juvenile fire starter and a PTSD veteran with challenges and hardships of their own. Some readers may have an issue with the junior arsonist; if so, skip it. But it does tie into the story in more than one way, so it is a main thread. I felt like I was on the scene with the search and rescue team; the description and feelings of the people and the areas that were written about were done with such clarity.
This is a story of pain, illness, betrayal, loss, family, healing, survival, hope and love. Some things that we are or that we become in life are not always of our own making or of our choice, but instead are due to the failures of others or failure of our own body or our mind. And as this story shows, sometimes there are second chances to change that course.
March 12, 2010
I just finished reading Alice Lichtenstein’s novel, Lost, in one sitting. This story about three strangers whose lives intersect after a man with Alzheimer’s disappears one frigid morning is that compelling. From the moment I met Susan, the wife of the lost man; Jeff, a search and rescue expert; and Corey, a mute eleven-year old who’s been abandoned by his family after accidentally causing the death of his brother, I could not put the book down.
The reader sees this frozen rural world of Lost through the eyes of each of these people. I was struck by how authentic the three different worlds felt, an indication of Lichtenstein’s careful research. In a well-drawn flashback, Susan, who before early retirement to care for her architect husband, was a scientist doing cutting-edge research on the regenerative properties of salamanders, shows one of her graduate students how to step by step “pinch off a tiny amount” of Tillie’s brain. Tillie, Susan’s “rarest salamander, an albino axolotl with pink-fringed gills and a dumb, trusting smile.”
Lichtenstein is equally successful in taking the reader into the whole search and rescue experience. Over and over there are passages that make us believe in the expertise required in rescue work:
“Jeff drops to his belly, stretches his arm along the track as a gauge…If a man is lost, his dominant foot will point along the line he takes. And pitch angles will vary foot to foot. The dominant foot takes a slightly longer step than the nondominant foot…We circle our weak side, wheeling and wheeling, and never even realizing we’re doing so.”
Oh, as a reader I love it when a writer is so exact. Lost also takes us into the barn where Corey helps his grandfather fix the conveyor belt that cleans the manure from the gutter. Again Lichtenstein makes us feel like we’re “there” with her use of sensory images:
“Corey stepped on the black, sludgy tongue of the gutter, careful to fit the heel of his boot to the lip on the conveyor to keep from slipping back…He couldn’t get used to the smell, or the way it looked on the ground, puddles of horrible, dark pudding.”
And besides making the world real, many of the descriptive passages do the double-duty of metaphor, revealing so much about the interior lives of Corey, Jeff, and Susan.
I finished this deeply satisfying novel in the middle of the night. I think, with a good story, the reader is always hoping that the writer will be able to conclude with on ending that “works.” Of course, I am not going to give away that conclusion, but I can say that I was able to reach The End feeling that all my hours of reading landed me at a finish that felt absolutely “right.”
The reader sees this frozen rural world of Lost through the eyes of each of these people. I was struck by how authentic the three different worlds felt, an indication of Lichtenstein’s careful research. In a well-drawn flashback, Susan, who before early retirement to care for her architect husband, was a scientist doing cutting-edge research on the regenerative properties of salamanders, shows one of her graduate students how to step by step “pinch off a tiny amount” of Tillie’s brain. Tillie, Susan’s “rarest salamander, an albino axolotl with pink-fringed gills and a dumb, trusting smile.”
Lichtenstein is equally successful in taking the reader into the whole search and rescue experience. Over and over there are passages that make us believe in the expertise required in rescue work:
“Jeff drops to his belly, stretches his arm along the track as a gauge…If a man is lost, his dominant foot will point along the line he takes. And pitch angles will vary foot to foot. The dominant foot takes a slightly longer step than the nondominant foot…We circle our weak side, wheeling and wheeling, and never even realizing we’re doing so.”
Oh, as a reader I love it when a writer is so exact. Lost also takes us into the barn where Corey helps his grandfather fix the conveyor belt that cleans the manure from the gutter. Again Lichtenstein makes us feel like we’re “there” with her use of sensory images:
“Corey stepped on the black, sludgy tongue of the gutter, careful to fit the heel of his boot to the lip on the conveyor to keep from slipping back…He couldn’t get used to the smell, or the way it looked on the ground, puddles of horrible, dark pudding.”
And besides making the world real, many of the descriptive passages do the double-duty of metaphor, revealing so much about the interior lives of Corey, Jeff, and Susan.
I finished this deeply satisfying novel in the middle of the night. I think, with a good story, the reader is always hoping that the writer will be able to conclude with on ending that “works.” Of course, I am not going to give away that conclusion, but I can say that I was able to reach The End feeling that all my hours of reading landed me at a finish that felt absolutely “right.”
March 25, 2015
In the beginning when Susan was taking care of her husband (who had dementia), I could empathize with Susan. After her husband goes missing, though, Susan's thoughts & feelings are not so well revealed, and I felt distanced from her. Same thing happened for Corey. At first, I could feel his confusions & misgivings. But the author dropped the ball & stopped sharing the inner Corey. I also thought the character development for Jeff was flat, with way too much unexplained.
I was expecting this to be a book that explored different emotions evoked by having a loved one missing. I was disappointed. Perhaps I would have felt differently if the story were told from one point of view instead of three.
I don't think this was a BAD book. It was just okay. You'll probably enjoy it more if you don't go into it with big expectations, as I had done.
I was expecting this to be a book that explored different emotions evoked by having a loved one missing. I was disappointed. Perhaps I would have felt differently if the story were told from one point of view instead of three.
I don't think this was a BAD book. It was just okay. You'll probably enjoy it more if you don't go into it with big expectations, as I had done.
July 11, 2010
I really don't know what was missing for me in this book. Perhaps it is just the topic, I have struggled with books about dementia and Alzheimers before. The writing really is very good. Stark and simple. No superfluous words rolling around on the pages. I just found it difficult to connect with the characters. I mean the book is about a man who wanders off from home and so the search for him begins in very cold weather. You never really get to know enough about any of the characters to have a stake in the outcome. I do feel I am under-rating it with 3 stars because I really liked the prose - but the character development was off.
July 18, 2011
Premise of the book sounded intriguing...woman's husband with Alzheimer's is lost and that is the basis for a bunch of "lost people" to come into contact---the search and rescue leader, the wife, and a teen. But somehow it didn't really all come into focus for me. I thought the most powerful scenes were the details of the wife's life in living with an Alzheimer's patient as to what she must endure and what she has given up. I thought the search and rescue leader's break-up with is wife was not really fully explained, nor the teen's whole story.
Interesting premise, but I wanted more explanation.
Interesting premise, but I wanted more explanation.
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February 4, 2021This novel concerns a wandering Alzheimer's patient and the woman that cares for him, a crippled Vietnam veteran that devotes his life to saving others while seeking to heal his own scars, and a mute boy at the heart of the drama. It concerns, too, the lengths to which we will go for redemption at much loss to ourselves. Never before have I encountered such misery in a novel conveyed in such beautiful language. Recommended.
March 8, 2010
Lost, by Alice Lichtenstein, is a beautiful, literary, and poetic book that will appeal to anyone who has loved someone with Alzheimer's or lost someone that they love. Christopher, suffering from Alzheimer's, gets lost and his wife, Susan calls Search and Rescue. Susan and Christopher have been married for 40 years and theirs has been a great love. Jeff is her liaison from Search and Rescue. His marriage is in a shambles. The story is also about a boy names Corey who is mute after he accidentally sets fire to his home. The chapters are told from the voices of Corey, Susan, or Jeff. This is a book to cherish. It is a true gem.
February 5, 2020
I had a difficult time with this book, as it was really just one disturbing scene after another, many of them ridiculously unbelievable. I mean, would a middle-aged professional woman really squat and pee in the woods while a detective leads her to the spot where they found her husband’s dead body? Of all of the bizarre scenes in this book, this one stood out as the most absurd.
I found the entire book extremely depressing, and I couldn’t relate to any of the characters. There was no closure at the end, so when I finished the book, I was actually angry.
I found the entire book extremely depressing, and I couldn’t relate to any of the characters. There was no closure at the end, so when I finished the book, I was actually angry.
December 14, 2011
It’s a spare but punishing story of what arises from the most wearying, grief-torn ordeals we might be so unfortunate to have to deal with. Susan’s husband, suffering from end stage dementia, wanders off into adversely cold winter conditions and ‘Lost’ is both about the search for him and the ways in which we bond or struggle to maintain our bonds. The central story was cutting and poignant, though cheapened by the implausibility of Corey’s and Jeff’s stories.
April 13, 2010
What a wonderful book. A beautifully written story of loss, redemption, the search for ourselves and others and what we find along the way. Alice is a gifted writer who was able to capture the emptiness of Alzheimers, the pain of survival, the poignancy of regret and the comfort of acceptance. Thank you, Alice for a very moving and meaningful story.
September 17, 2013
3.5 stars.
January 7, 2026
Took me a long time to read this book, even though it’s super short. I just didn’t like it very much. I understood it, and the message it’s giving. However, multiple times in the book it was rather boring. I’m glad I read it, but I probably wouldn’t recommend this book.
October 28, 2017
Great book filled with tragedy, compassion and redemption.
April 29, 2018
Sad but though provoking story about everything but the search for the missing man. Human nature and reality.
June 10, 2019
Refreshing that this novel didn't end in a romance, but instead a different kind of healing coming together.
January 2, 2021
Enjoyable
March 27, 2021
Thought provoking.
January 20, 2024
I felt like this could’ve been longer…. Intriguing.
September 28, 2025
As a person who has been a caretaker for most of their adult life, I can say that I really empathized with Susan and her wanting to take a moment or two for herself. It's easy to overlook the caregivers, and for them to ignore their own needs. This was a good book, it was beautifully written and for me was very real to life. There were some scenes that didn't work for me, and that's okay, but honestly I'd recommend this 100x's over.
February 9, 2011
"Lost" is the story of three people and how their lives intersect when a man suffering from Alzheimer's disease disappears.
The story is centered on Susan Hunsinger. Her husband, Christopher, is in the later stages of Alzheimers. He is in a very difficult stage in that Susan must be very attentive to him. Anything out of the unusual upsets him and he is prone to go missing. They have moved to a town where they have no friends, and Susan has very little, if any, help. She demonstrates the commitment, frustration, and lonliness of those faced with this disease.
Jeff Herdman has led a complicated life. Jeff is a social worker in the town and is in charge of any search and rescue mission. He is a Vietnam Veteran who still is carrying scars from that war, and he has found himself in a marriage that is not working.
Cory is a young man that may or may not have been responsible for a terrible fire that destroyed his family's home and killed his older brother. His family cannot stand to have him around and he has been fostered out to his grandparents. His grandparents have found out that they are very uncomfortable with Corey and want him removed from their house.
On a bitterly cold snowy day Christopher becomes very upset and Susan becomes very frustrated. Susuan, looking for a little peace, becomes unattentive and Christopher disappears.
Over the next couple of days, Susan and Jeff work together to find Christopher. At the same time, they lean on each other with stories of their lives. Jeff is also faced with trying to help Corey.
"Lost" is a story that explores people's lives and the effect the forces of nature has on them. It also brings out the love, affection, and caring that people have for one another, and how good can come out of tragedy.
The story is centered on Susan Hunsinger. Her husband, Christopher, is in the later stages of Alzheimers. He is in a very difficult stage in that Susan must be very attentive to him. Anything out of the unusual upsets him and he is prone to go missing. They have moved to a town where they have no friends, and Susan has very little, if any, help. She demonstrates the commitment, frustration, and lonliness of those faced with this disease.
Jeff Herdman has led a complicated life. Jeff is a social worker in the town and is in charge of any search and rescue mission. He is a Vietnam Veteran who still is carrying scars from that war, and he has found himself in a marriage that is not working.
Cory is a young man that may or may not have been responsible for a terrible fire that destroyed his family's home and killed his older brother. His family cannot stand to have him around and he has been fostered out to his grandparents. His grandparents have found out that they are very uncomfortable with Corey and want him removed from their house.
On a bitterly cold snowy day Christopher becomes very upset and Susan becomes very frustrated. Susuan, looking for a little peace, becomes unattentive and Christopher disappears.
Over the next couple of days, Susan and Jeff work together to find Christopher. At the same time, they lean on each other with stories of their lives. Jeff is also faced with trying to help Corey.
"Lost" is a story that explores people's lives and the effect the forces of nature has on them. It also brings out the love, affection, and caring that people have for one another, and how good can come out of tragedy.
June 15, 2010
I was hooked with the opening of the book: "He should have been afraid, but he wasn't. He'd done the bad thing and the bad thing made nothing as bad ever since." Of course, right away I wanted to know what the bad thing was and who did it. It turns out to be a young boy Corey who did the bad thing and he can't forgive himself and thinks no one else can either--and maybe he's right. Our other two narrators also have their struggles. Susan is a professor trying to care for her husband who suffers from severe dementia. And Jeff, a search and rescue coordinator, has just found out his wife is cheating on him and wants to leave him.
The three stories of heartbreak and hardship come together when Susan's husband, the man with dementia, disappears. As the temperature drops and the search continues, we find out about the different characters and how they have suffered. While there isn't much that can be done for the lost man, we can't help but hope that his disappearance might bring about positive changes for our three protagonists.
This was a well-written enjoyable book--but more of the slow-thoughtful type than a page-turner.
The three stories of heartbreak and hardship come together when Susan's husband, the man with dementia, disappears. As the temperature drops and the search continues, we find out about the different characters and how they have suffered. While there isn't much that can be done for the lost man, we can't help but hope that his disappearance might bring about positive changes for our three protagonists.
This was a well-written enjoyable book--but more of the slow-thoughtful type than a page-turner.
February 9, 2017
I expected this book to be about a search and rescue operation looking for the lost man with dementia. Instead the search was mentioned a time or two but the focus of the book was actually the wife, Susan and what she went through caring for her husband as well as, following the rescue leader, Jeff's fascination with Susan and his break from his wife. Oh and let's not forget about Corey who was ostracized from his family for arson and accidentally killing his brother in a fire he set. What Corey does in the end is shocking and a little over the top especially when This in itself dropped my rating from 3 to 2 stars as it was simply improbable and ridiculous.
December 9, 2010
This was a very quick read, and I felt there wasn't very much meat to the book. An man with alzheimer's wanders away from home while his wife went outside to get the mail and a quick walk up the road. she comes home and he is missing. A search and rescue mission is set up to search the woods behind their house. There is another story in this book that comes together at the end. It is about a young boy who was encouraged by an older brother to play with fire. One time he burnt the house down with his brother in it. Estranged from his parents now he stays with his grandparents, only to be not wanted and told he would be put out. He is the one who finds that man laying in the snow, so he covers him in pine tree branches, even though he knows he is already dead. However, what the search team finds is a man torched with kerosene. The boy is missing, so Jeff (one of the liasons between the search team and Susan) goes out looking for the boy and finds him reeking of kerosene. In the end, with no one wanting the boy, Susan decides to take him in and care for him.
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March 30, 2010
Lost is a well written love story about the selfless love of a caregiving wife, the broken love of a country search and rescue worker and the lack of love for a young boy with no family. These three characters and their situations fall together seamlessly and give the reader a sense of hope. The three main characters are all 'lost' and all find their ways home through finding love.
I finished this book in two days and couldn't wait to pass it along to a friend so that we can discuss it. It was a well written and enjoyable read.
I finished this book in two days and couldn't wait to pass it along to a friend so that we can discuss it. It was a well written and enjoyable read.
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April 11, 2010
The story is told from the viewpoints of (3) characters: Susan, Jeff and Corey who are brought together when Christopher, Susan's 72 year old husband with Alzheimer's becomes "Lost", one morning. Susan is 12 years younger than her husband. While the search and rescue process was very well researched, for some reason the story just did not flow smoothly for me, and ultimately left me feeling a bit flat. Other reviews have been very positive, so maybe it was just a case of wrong time, wrong book? Try this one for yourself and decide. (3/5 stars)
July 1, 2010
I chose this book because our family is dealing with a parent that has dementia. In this story, the character suffering from dementia, or Alzheimers, wanders away in the dead of winter..hence the title LOST.
But as it turns out, several of the other characters are "lost" in different aspects of their life. I appreciated the writers skill in conveying these characters emotions..and you can agonize with Susan as you learn how difficult it is to be a caretaker of a loved one. Fast read at barely 200 pages..but thoughtfully written!
But as it turns out, several of the other characters are "lost" in different aspects of their life. I appreciated the writers skill in conveying these characters emotions..and you can agonize with Susan as you learn how difficult it is to be a caretaker of a loved one. Fast read at barely 200 pages..but thoughtfully written!
August 21, 2011
Susan's husband,suffering from dementia, gets lost on a snowy
January day.
Jeff is a social workers assigned to the search. Jeff's wife
left him just the day before.
Corey is a 12 year old whose playing with a cigerette lighter
resulted in the death of his brother. He is now mute and has
been sent to live with his grandparents who do not want him.
No foster home in the state will take a fire starter.
Impulsive choices, painful memories, unanswerable questions
will bring a convergence of lives among these three.
Or something like that. This is a quick read, and interesting.
January day.
Jeff is a social workers assigned to the search. Jeff's wife
left him just the day before.
Corey is a 12 year old whose playing with a cigerette lighter
resulted in the death of his brother. He is now mute and has
been sent to live with his grandparents who do not want him.
No foster home in the state will take a fire starter.
Impulsive choices, painful memories, unanswerable questions
will bring a convergence of lives among these three.
Or something like that. This is a quick read, and interesting.
April 30, 2010
A older man suffering from dementia wanders off on a frigid January day. There are three simultaneous stories being told by the distraught wife, the search and rescue guy and a 12-year-old mute boy who started a housefire that killed his older brother. These seemingly unrelated characters develop relationships that help them deal with their losses. This book was well-written, for sure, but there was just something lacking in it for me.
June 1, 2010
I've read so many good books lately, this one just didn't really cut it for me. I liked the premise - a woman's husband suffering from dementia goes missing, and she gets involved with the police hunt along with a missing-persons expert who is also a social worker having his own marital problems. The dialogue seemed clunky at times, as if the author were saying to herself, "Time to write the next sentence," instead of just having it all flow naturally to where I almost forget I'm reading.
August 4, 2011
This book was rather difficult to read. The author was a bit too descriptive for my tastes and sometimes downright odd. There was no firm conclusion to the story either. That being said, the author was also able to get a lot into a mere 250 pages. She developed very complex characters and a unique plot. I would recommend that you only read it if you have a lot of time to slog through it. It's not light reading!
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