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The nowhere child : a novel
- Title
- The nowhere child : a novel / Christian White.
- Author
- White, Christian
- Publication
- New York : Minotaur Books, 2019.
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-1964 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 371 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-eight years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler. On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Went's daughter Sammy disappeared from the inside their Kentucky home. Already estranged since the girl's birth, the couple drifted further apart as time passed. Jack did his best to raise and protect his other daughter and son while Molly found solace in her faith. The Church of the Light Within, a Pentecostal fundamentalist group who handle poisonous snakes as part of their worship, provided that faith. Without Sammy, the Wents eventually fell apart. Now, with proof that she and Sammy are in fact the same person, Kim travels to America to reunite with a family she never knew she had. And to solve the mystery of her abduction, a mystery that will take her deep into the dark heart of religious fanaticism where she must fight for her life against those determined to save her soul. --
- On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Went's daughter Sammy disappeared from the inside their Manson, Kentucky home. Already estranged, the couple drifted further apart. Jack did his best to raise his other daughter and son. Molly found solace in her faith, The Church of the Light Within, a Pentecostal fundamentalist group who handle poisonous snakes as part of their worship. In 2018 Kimberly Leamy, a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia, is given proof that she and Sammy are the same person. Kim travels to America to reunite with a family she never knew she had... and try to solve the mystery of her abduction. -- adapted from jacket
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Note
- Subtitle from jacket.
- Awards (note)
- 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1964
- ISBN
- 9781250293718
- 1250293715
- 9781250293701 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018046204
- OCLC
- 1057733966
- Author
- White, Christian, author.
- Title
- The nowhere child : a novel / Christian White.
- Publisher
- New York : Minotaur Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1964