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A Year in the Fog by Michelle Richmond
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:25 pm
by MOM2SNOX
Another book I read very quickly! This one came a little closer to home since I have a 7 year old...!
Richmond's sophomore effort (after Dream of the Blue Room, 2003) traces a traumatic year in the life of photographer Abby Mason after she loses her fiance's six-year-old daughter. The moment Abby stopped to photograph a dead baby seal while walking on a fog-bound beach in San Francisco is one she will replay in her head a thousand times. That's the last time she saw Emma, who was racing ahead, eager to collect sand dollars. Panic and fear soon give way to sheer exhaustion and emotional shutdown as Abby and Emma's dad, Jake, immerse themselves in the desperate search for the missing first-grader. As the months tick by, Jake becomes convinced that Emma drowned, while Abby is sure that Emma was kidnapped. The trauma and the guilt wreak havoc with their relationship and with their struggle to regain a sense of normalcy. Richmond gracefully explores the nature of memory and perception in key passages that never slow the suspense of the search. Closely echoing Jacquelyn Mitchard's best-selling Deep End of the Ocean (1996), this is a page-turner with a philosophical bent. Joanne Wilkinson
Re: A Year in the Fog by Michelle Richmond
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:13 am
by Skybluepink
I read this book. I loved it.
Re: A Year in the Fog by Michelle Richmond
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:37 am
by MOM2SNOX
Skybluepink wrote:I read this book. I loved it.
Did the ending tick you off too...? I don't want to spoil it for anyone but I thought Abby got the raw end of the situation. :(