A Year of Fog
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| Sun, 05-20-2007 - 2:29pm |
I just finished A Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond. It is a book told from the point of view of a woman who is out on a foggy day on the beach in San Fransico with her finacee's six year old daughter. She looks away for a minute to take a photograph of a dead seal, and in that minute, the six year old disappears. What remains is this woman's journey to find Emma, the six year old. Abby is convinced that Emma was kidnapped, and she spends all of her time dealing with her guilt of "losing" Emma by combing the area for Emma. This is a book that is not just about Abby's search for Emma, but, on a deeper level, it is a story of Abby's own personal journey towards coming to terms with what happened. I enjoyed this book; it was a quick read that was hard to put down. The resolution is satisfying, but bittersweet. Good character development.
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Katz
I am glad you liked it! I was so torn by the end because I was so happy that the child had been found, but I was so sad that the main character lost the relationship with the father (I can't remember the names of the characters at the moment). However, it was realistic, I think, because it would be hard to get over the fact that your girlfriend "lost" your child; and, I think that the whole process of searching for a missing child would destroy a relationship that is a marriage let alone the relationship of a couple who isn't yet married. I hear that a lot of parents of missing children end up getting divorced, and this was a couple who hadn't even been together that long, so I think it was realistic that the two didn't make it. But, I thought that the main character grew a lot through out the search process, and she kind of "found herself", in a sense. So, I found it satisfying, even though it wasn't a picture perfect ending.
Emily
Yikes I didn't notice the other posts to this thread when I posted earlier.