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MIRA
September 2013
On Sale: August 27, 2013
Featuring: Jacob Hargrave; Lucille Hargrave; Harold Hargrave
400 pages
ISBN: 0778315339
EAN: 9780778315339
Kindle: B00ATMP806
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"Jacob was time out of sync, time more perfect than it
had been. He was life the way it was supposed to be all
those years ago. That's what all the Returned were."
Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been
both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only
son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party in
1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life
without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of
time…. Until one day Jacob mysteriously appears on their
doorstep—flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child,
still eight years old.
All over the world
people's loved ones are returning from beyond. No one knows
how or why this is happening, whether it's a miracle or a
sign of the end. Not even Harold and Lucille can agree on
whether the boy is real or a wondrous imitation, but one
thing they know for sure: he's their son. As chaos erupts
around the globe, the newly reunited Hargrave family finds
itself at the center of a community on the brink of
collapse, forced to navigate a mysterious new reality and a
conflict that threatens to unravel the very meaning of what
it is to be human.
With spare, elegant prose
and searing emotional depth, award-winning poet Jason Mott
explores timeless questions of faith and morality, love and
responsibility. A spellbinding and stunning debut, The
Returned is an unforgettable story that marks the
arrival of an important new voice in contemporary fiction.
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