Songs for the Missing - Stewart O'nan

On the heels of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Last Night at the Lobster comes this honest, heartfelt account of one family's attempt to find its missing child. O'Nan's novel begins with the suspense of a thriller and soon deepens into an affecting family drama of loss. nA heartfelt family drama of loss and reconciliation with the unthinkable, from the author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself nReturning 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.n