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Category: Books (Fiction)
Author: Dayna Hester
Author: Dayna Hester
ISBN-10: 1450214371
ISBN-10: 1450214371
ISBN-13: 9781450214377
ISBN-13: 9781450214377
Publisher: iUniverse
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Binding: Hardcover
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: 01-Jun-2011
Pub Date: 01-Jun-2011
SKU: 1450214371-11-MPOD
SKU: 1450214371-11-MPOD
Item ID: 102196579
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Each year over a quarter of a million children are abducted in the United States, many, but not all, by a family member. Losing a child this way is a parent's worst nightmare. We all feel a pang of heartache when we see a child's face on a missing person's poster or the side of a milk carton. We hope the story ends well. Dayna Hester's extensively researched debut novel Speaking Truths brings to life not only the multi-layered trauma of child abduction, but the tough road back to normalcy in those happy cases where the child is successfully recovered.

Drawing on courtroom intrigue and murder mystery to pace her story, Hester paints a vivid portrait of a boy who, when we first meet him, is intensely uncomfortable in his own skin: a skin that has experienced untold pain, and whose boundaries and identity are elusive and variable. As he grows into a young man with much to give to the world and those around him, we root for him, fear for him, and sit on the edge of our seats as he negotiates his difficult journey from the land of the missing to the land of the living.

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