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SONGS FOR THE MISSING
By: Stewart O'Nan

Viking
November 2008
On Sale: October 30, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 067002032X
EAN: 9780670020324
Kindle: B001F37L1W
Hardcover / e-Book
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Suspense

Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community's efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missing. It soon deepens into an affecting portrait of a family trying desperately to hold onto itself and the memory of a daughter whose return becomes increasingly unlikely. Stark and honest, this is an intimate account of what happens behind the headlines of a very American tragedy.

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