Nobody is ever missing
Lacey, Catherine, 1985-2016
Book
Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable life in Manhattan, her home, her career and her loving husband. As the people she has left behind scramble to figure out what has happened to her, Elyria embarks on a hitchhiker's odyssey, testing fate by travelling in the cars of overly kind women and deeply strange men, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. As she journeys from Wellington to Picton, Takaka, Kaikoura and onwards she asks herself, what is it that I am missing? How can a person be missing? Full of mordant humour and uncanny insights, Nobody Is Ever Missing is a startling tale of love, loss, and the dangers encountered in the search for self-knowledge. It is a novel which goes far beyond the story of a physical journey and asks what it means to be human, to be a woman, and to be at the mercy of forces beyond one's own control.
Main title:
Nobody is ever missing / Catherine Lacey.
Author:
Lacey, Catherine, 1985-, author
Work:
Edition:
Paperback edition.
Imprint:
London : Granta Books, 2016.©2014.
Collation:
244 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in 2014 in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
ISBN:
9781783780891 (pbk)1783780894
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
342061