Grow Your Child's Library with Top Young Reader Series, 50% Off All Funko Wetmore Forest POP!, Plush, and More, Knock Knock Gifts, Books & Office Supplies, Buy One, Get One 50% Off Holiday Boxed Cards, Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser, Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and. How effectively does she convey Vincent's complex feelings about the loss of Ben and about his parents? Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2017. How anyone can survive the loss of a child is difficult to imagine. Please try again. This is quite possibly one of the worst books I have ever read. Maybe it was that even though his brother was supposed to watch him and didn't, there was never any real attempt made to tell the brother that it was really NOT his fault. MOM was the adult. How is he the Cappadoras' child, and how is he George's child? I won't say it's as good but it's definitely worth reading. the choices she must face to break free of it—in this emotional, engaging novel. What different kinds of reunions take place? Has anyone in the family benefited from the experience of losing Ben? Read it with my book club, and to a person, we all hated it. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. This is a well-constructed story about the effects a certain tragedy had on one family. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Sam/Ben I liked, as well, but, since we did not really get to know him too well, this was a minor interest for me. It will make you think. It would be a parent's worst nightmare to go through losing a child. Regardless, I found myself sobbing at the end, and not for the reasons I expected. Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Secrets wait until you have the perfect life-then they find you. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. The ending is full of hope, a definite payoff for the reader. The first book ever chosen by Oprah's Book Club. It didn't. Her essay on adoption was anthologized in the Adoption Reader.The mother of five children, Mitchard lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she is at work on a second novel entitled The Most Wanted. I saw the movie, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, years ago and always had in the back of my mind that I'd like to read the book. —Kaye Gibbons, "A beautifully timed, wrenchingly told story of a family's worst nightmare... has the pace of a thriller with the emotional wallop of August and Endless Love." And that's not what it was at all, so rest assured. You have to use one hand to hold the child and one to sign things or carry things or whatever. There is a second book entitled "No Time to Wave Goodbye", which was written in 2009. How far would you go to find the truth about your husband, and his multiple wives? Ashley Poston made her name with Once Upon a Con, a contemporary series set in the world of fandom, and her two-part space opera, Heart of... Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. After Ben's disappearance, Beth ceases to communicate with just about everybody, except Candy. Family completely falls apart & remaining kids are neglected. The climax happens about halfway through the book and then the next 200 or so pages are padding that you end up hating yourself for reading. I did have a hard time relating to the main character; it really bothered me that she couldn’t see how much her older son needed her. One, read a lot more than you think you have time for. I'm glad I did. I was also a little disappointed that all the loose ends were not exactly tied up at the end with regard to the central mystery (what exactly transpired with Ben in the hotel lobby before he disappeared, why the return of the second shoe?) MOM could have held on to him while they checked into the hotel.

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