Sunday 16 December 2007

Vanishing Acts by Jodie Picoult

AZ: "Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own Search and Rescue bloodhound - which she uses to find missing persons. But as she plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. Then a policeman shows up at her door, arresting her father for the kidnap of a little girl. And Delia's past and present fracture into little pieces. "Vanishing Acts" is a book about the very nature and power of memory. It explores what happens when the past we have been running from catches up to us, and questions who we trust to tell us the story of our lives before we are capable of remembering it ourselves."

Ouch, read in one day. About a grown woman who is making plans for her wedding to her fiance when her beloved father is arrested for abducting her as a child. Raises familiar ground of uncomfortable choices, the desperation of a father versus the rights of a mother to her child and about the fragility of memory. Also about learning that what you thought was right may not be so clear.

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