![]() ![]() Nox by Anne Carson Carson’s brother Michael disappeared in 1978 to escape imprisonment and for two decades wandered, making minimal contact with his family before his death in 2000. Perhaps the most devastating character is the father, desperately driving up and down highways distributing flyers, trying to keep his daughter in the public mind.ģ. Narrated alternately by Kim’s mother, father and 15-year-old sister, O’Nan shows us a different kind of procedural: endless waiting, spending nights on websites as her sister does, or taking pills to fall into unconsciousness like her mother. O’Nan resists generic expectations, sidelining the thriller elements to offer a compassionate portrait of a family afraid to give up in the face of tragedy. ![]() Her Chevette is found several days later in a nearby town. Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan In the summer of 2005, 18-year-old Kim Larsen vanishes on her way to work. She quotes St Augustine: “The dead may be invisible, but they are not absent.” A stunning reflection on how we forget, remember and love, even those who have been missing all our lives.Ģ. With her mother, Cumming sifts through objects, photographs, police reports, and shadows of memories as they piece together the story of the missing persons in her mother’s life and her missing past. On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming This memoir about the mystery of Cumming’s mother’s identity and her abduction when she was three years old is beautifully descriptive yet reads almost like a thriller as the past unspools. ![]()
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