The Sweet Relief of Missing Children
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The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein
A magnificent debut filled with characters so vivid, strange, and richly imagined, you emerge feeling changed.-Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
"Through random encounters and elliptical dialogue, Braunstein locates the pain in these people’s lives and makes it shimmer" -- Booklist
"The reader becomes a sort of watcher peering into a variety of small-town kitchens and bedrooms, and looking hard into hearts that have been broken or shaken loose." -- Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of American Salvage
"The reader becomes a sort of watcher peering into a variety of small-town kitchens and bedrooms, and looking hard into hearts that have been broken or shaken loose." -- Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of American Salvage
Sarah Braunstein is the author of Bad Animals and The Sweet Relief of Missing Children. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories, among other publications, and she received a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 prize. She lives in Maine and teaches at Colby College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393076592 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393076598 |
| Title | The Sweet Relief of Missing Children |
| Author | Sarah Braunstein |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2011-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 363 |
| Prizes | Commended for Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize 2011 |
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