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Laddar... The Local Newsav Miriam Gershow
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Engaging. Not a strong recommendation, but not bad at all. I'm checking out some Oregon writers. She's fine. (  ) AnnAnderson | Jun 25, 2016 |  This is a weird book... a little nerd girl's older brother goes missing and that's about it. Later, you find out what happened to the brother, but that's not even the end of the novel and the stuff that comes after that doesn't even matter. In fact, the whole book doesn't matter. It was cliched and boring on almost every single page. (  ) TeenieLee | Apr 3, 2013 | Miriam Gershow brings the lives of those tragic, strained faces seen too frequently on television who plead for information about a missing child. In pain-staking detail Gershow chronicles the reality behind the headlines and the new clips that the Pasternak family experiences after the disappearance of Danny, the “golden” child of the family. Bookish, awkward Lydia, the younger sister, wryly describes the disintegration of routine, her parent’s crumbling marriage and the desperate need for answers. Lydia finds herself suddenly sought out by her brother’s jock friends and befriended by an extremely extroverted classmate. As Lydia recounts family interactions and the treatment Danny both received and gave the reader comes to understand that this family’s brokenness occurred long before Danny disappeared. The realistic portrayal of this family often makes for uncomfortable reading and yet I felt compelled to continue to attend and not look away. ( ) kellyn | Jun 30, 2011 | The main character, Lydia, grabbed me from the first page. Her brother is missing, she is forgotten, she must now raise herself. (  ) susanjoyce | Apr 8, 2010 | A WOW book. Loved the relationships and the complexity. shazjhb | Mar 28, 2010 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Bright, precocious but socially awkward Lydia Pasternak reports on the aftermath of her older brother's disappearance. Danny was everything Lydia wasn't: at ease with their parents, popular in school, physically imposing, beloved by the opposite sex. Danny went from being Lydia's playmate in their youth to her tormentor in high school, so his disappearance leaves Lydia with some very mixed feelings, one of which is relief. As time goes on and the weekend search parties prove more and more fruitless, Lydia struggles with the fact that her geeky best friend, David, has feelings for her; she also obsesses over the private investigator hired by the family and allows herself to be sucked into the social world Danny once dominated. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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