The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel

ISBN: 0393340759

Author: Braunstein, Sarah

Condition: New

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize"A magnificent debut filled with characters so vivid, strange, and richly imagined, you emerge feeling changed." -Sarah Shun-lien BynumIn New York City, a girl called Lenora vanishes without a trace. Years earlier and miles upstate, Goldie, a wild, negligent mother, searches for a man to help raise her precocious son, Paul, who later discovers that the only way to save his soul is to run away. The Sweet Relief of Missing Children is a suspenseful novel about the power of running and the desire for reinvention. It explores the terror and transcendence of our most central experiences: childhood, parenthood, sex, love.