Songs for the Missing

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 08/01/2009
ISBN: 9780143116028
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.36w x 0.67d