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Where You Can Find Me
Author:
Joseph, Sheri
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Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: PS3610
Print Run: 25000
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ISBN-13: 9781250012852
LCCN: BD12355026
Imprint: Thomas Dunne Books
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Pub Date: 04/16/2013
Availability: Out of Print Confirmed
List: $24.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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328 p. ; 25 cm.
H 9.47",
W 6.44",
D 1.18",
1.14 lbs.
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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TIPS Subjects:
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Mystery/Detective Fiction
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FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Family Life / General
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LC Subjects:
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Families, Fiction
Mystery fiction
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Families, Fiction
Mystery fiction
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 01/01/2013 |
| In a broken-down hotel, Caleb and his family learn the truth about Caleb's disappearance three years ago, when he resurfaced with a new name and a new man he called 'father.' Caleb isn't totally rid of the life he left behind, and when his mother finds and relocates him, danger from the past rears its head once more. 336pp., 25K, Auth res: Atlanta, GA |
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| Booklist | 03/01/2013 |
| Caleb Vincent, kidnapped at age 11 by a violent pedophile, is miraculously returned to his stunned family three years later. His mother, Marlene, who has been utterly consumed with looking for him, decides to flee the paparazzi staked out in front of their house and take him to Costa Rica, where her mother-in-law runs a wildlife preserve. His father is guilt-stricken because he had given his son up for dead, while Caleb's 11-year-old sister, Lark, thinks of her brother as having been to "The Gone: Dorothy up in the tornado; Alice down the rabbit hole." At the heart of the story is shell-shocked Caleb, who now feels like damaged goods and finds himself still drawn to the man he thought of as his father. In the exotic environment of Costa Rica, where no one knows his backstory and where his bohemian uncle forges a light and easy relationship with him, Caleb is finally able to begin to understand just what has happened. Joseph (Stray, 2007) turns the sensationalistic story of an abused boy who has seen the darkest parts of life into a transformative and often suspense-filled tale of identity and resilience. A deeply moving novel about a family determined to survive the greatest of tragedies. Wilkinson, Joanne. 336p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| BookPage | 04/01/2013 |
| What is it like to be one of those families whose child is abducted? What is it like to be one of those families whose child is miraculously restored to them? The Vincents, in Atlanta author Sheri Joseph's unsettling novel Where You Can Find Me, know the answer to both questions. When he was 11, their son Caleb was abducted, then found three years later. He and his family--mother Marlene, dad Jeff and precocious little sister Lark--struggle to pick up the pieces after he returns. But Caleb's abduction and return only exacerbate what was already wrong with Marlene and Jeff's marriage. Deeply flawed, neither Marlene nor Jeff can give their children what they need, at least not by themselves. Eventually, Marlene takes the kids from Georgia to her mother-in-law Hilda's ramshackle hotel in the rainforest of Costa Rica, without Jeff. There, no one knows who Caleb is. There are no news vans on the street; no one points and stares. Hilda is distracted but loving, and her man-boy of a son Lowell becomes a buddy to Caleb and Lark. All seems to be well, but one mark of a good writer is the ability to hint at the disquiet beneath what looks like a calm surface. Like Hilda's old hotel, part of it fallen into the valley and the rest teetering on the edge of a cliff, the reader is kept in a state of almost nail-biting uncertainty when it comes to this family's recovery. In Where You Can Find Me, Joseph takes on a difficult subject and makes it work. Arlene McKanic. 336pg. BOOKPAGE, c2013. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 02/15/2013 |
| A family moves to Costa Rica to heal from a kidnapping. At age 11, Caleb Vincent was abducted and imprisoned in a basement, then starved and trafficked by a ring of pedophiles. Discovered by the FBI living with a man nicknamed Jolly, Caleb, 14, is brought home from Washington state to his parents in Atlanta. Marlene, his mother, never lost hope for Caleb's return, but his father, Jeff, had at one point given him up for dead. To escape her shaky marriage and the intrusive media that hounds the family day and night, Marlene moves herself, Caleb and 11-year old daughter, Lark, to Costa Rica to live in the cloud forest at a ramshackle hotel owned by Jeff's mother, Hilda. As the narration dips in and out of Caleb's head, the reader only gradually learns what happened to him during his disappearance. Jolly, it emerges, is a doctor who rescued Caleb from the pedophiles and took a paternal as well as sexual interest in him. The paternal won out when Jolly encouraged Caleb to attend school, thus facilitating another rescue, this time by authorities. So ambivalent is Caleb about his feelings for Jolly that he refuses to cooperate with the FBI's prosecution of him (the original kidnappers are still at large) and cannot resist making contact with Jolly from Costa Rica. Meanwhile, other sexually charged scenarios play out: Marlene rekindles an old romance with her husband's brother, Lowell, and Caleb dates a local girl, Isabel, while not so secretly yearning for her transvestite cousin, Luis. Joseph approaches this explosive material with circumspection, perhaps excessively: So much time is devoted to atmospheric but aimless descriptions of Costa Rican scenery, flora and fauna that at times the travelogue overwhelms the plot, which unfolds at a leisurely, tropical pace. However, Joseph's preoccupations are less with plot than with honestly confronting the internal conflicts that can arise in reaction to unspeakable crimes. A fraught subject, handled with gravitas and, improbably, grace. 336pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| Library Journal Prepub Alert | 10/22/2012 |
| Joseph has proven herself by winning the Grub Street National Book Prize, not to mention a half-dozen fellowships and residencies. The publisher is hoping that this book will break her out, and the intriguing plot would seem to have broad appeal. After being kidnapped and living for three years with a man he learned to call father, a rescued Caleb is back with his family. But the stress of rebuilding old ties has convinced his mother to move Caleb and his sister to Costa Rica, where they live with her estranged husband's expat mother and disarmingly charming older brother. Finally, what really happened to Caleb can emerge. Great reading group potential. 336p. LJ Prepub Alert Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2012. |
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