Twelve-year-old
Cooper is a lonely little boy. His father suffers from PTSD. His
mother is somewhat remote, but she is the one person he can
communicate with. Cooper thinks he lives in an average family until
his mother leaves telling him and his father that she is off on an
adventure.
At first Cooper
waits for her to come home. He doesn’t understand why she left, and
soon he begins to act out. His father is also clueless about his
mother’s motivations so they set out to look for her, but how do
you find someone who doesn’t want to be found?
This is a deep,
character-driven novel that explores the relationship between a
child’s view of the world and his parents lives. Children are
dependent on their parents. They have no background to judge and
forgive their parents’ shortcomings. Good parents are those who
have enough maturity to give emotional support, but what happens when
the parent is emotionally fragile?
If you enjoy novels
that explore the emotional life of parents and children, you will
like this book. The prose is clean, the setting interesting, and the
characters well-drawn. It’s a book that will pull you in to
Cooper’s world.
I received this book
from Turner Publishing for this review.
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