Similar Posts

12 Comments

  1. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have a child go missing – worse than a child being murdered, I’d guess, where at least you wouldn’t be left wondering for years. It’s an odd cover – it doesn’t quite seem to suit the story…

    1. Yes true, the cover is sort of tropical and cheery, which…I get the tropical connection, but it definitely ain’t cheery!

  2. There are soooo many people in my family who have disappeared, which is bizarre. Typically, they were adults who just never came home and were later found dead (in a lake, in a mental institution, etc.). One disappeared and was found alive. He’d gone out west and become a popcorn farmer, which is my favorite kind of farmer.

    1. UM what???? Ok that’s crazy, I’m so sorry you’ve had that happen to you, how terrible. Although, the popcorn farmer is a really nice antidote to that sadness!

    2. You’d think it would a thing that happened and then over the generations people would forget, but they don’t. It’s a trauma that has emotional and economic ripples.

    3. Intergenerational trauma is REAL thing, and we talk about it alot up in Canada now to help contextualize the PTSD that indigenous people have experienced through our residential school system

  3. Agh! A child going missing is always hard to read. We all think of one or two moments when our own children disappeared. Mine was in 1990 when my four year old son, after an argument with his sister and her friends, charged up the long promenade at Playa de Las Americas, Tenerife, threading his way through holidaymakers, any of whom might have snatched him. And, yes, we caught him eventually, and I’ve just been exchanging WhatsApp messages with him.
    This theme was, of course, a central plank of The Shack by William Paul Young – heart-wrenching.
    I’m thinking about adding this book to TBR, but to be honest I’m a little daunted.

    1. Oh that would make my heart stop! A think a child disappearing is a parent’s worst nightmare, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy

  4. It seems like such a strange cover for this kind of story, or was it more that the sad and heavy parts of the story stood out for you while there was a rich and lush vegetation of happier narrative elements that you just didn’t feel like writing about? *grins* Maybe I’m just getting cranky, but I feel like there are a lot of corners cut with covers, and it’s especially disappointing when the book deserves more attention to the visual elements.

    1. Hmm well, I suppose there’s alot of lushness to this novel, the luxury the family enjoys, etc but the tropical-ness of the location seems to be pushing on them rather then helping them enjoy things. It’s a punishment, the tropical heat

Comments are closed.