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Author Brown, Janelle, author.

Title Watch me disappear : a novel / Janelle Brown.

Publication Info. New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2017]

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Location Call No. Public Note Status
 Davis Adult Fiction  FIC BROWN    IN TRANSIT +1 HOLD
 West Sacramento Adult Fiction  FIC BROWN    CHECK SHELVES
Edition First edition.
Description 358 pages ; 25 cm
Content type text txt rdacontent
Format volume nc rdacarrier
Summary "A beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past vanishes while hiking, leaving her family to piece together her secrets, in this keenly observed novel for readers of Emma Straub and Maria Semple--from the bestselling author of all We Ever Wanted Was Everything"-- Provided by publisher.
"Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously, but when she meets Jonathan, a tech magazine editor and all around good guy, she settles easily into the life of an eco-conscious, stay-at-home suburban yoga mom. Their daughter Olive, under her mother's watchful gaze, becomes a lovely, introverted, slightly eccentric girl. As she reaches adolescence and needs Billie's full-time attention less, Billie throws herself into extreme sports--marathons, scuba diving, rock climbs, solo hikes. On one of these expeditions, Billie vanishes from the trail--only a hiking boot is found. The family is devastated--a year of intense mourning passes in which they await the closure that a body and a death certificate will bring. Jonathan drinks; Olive grows remote. But then she starts having waking dreams--hallucinations?--in which her very vibrant mother urges the girl to look for her, and Olive begins to believe her mother is still alive and in trouble. Jonathan believes the trauma and anxiety of losing her mother is making Olive ill, until he uncovers a secret that compels him to consider that Billie may not be dead after all and sends him on his own quest for the truth--about Billie, their marriage, and the things people do in the name of love."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Radicals -- California -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Hallucinations and illusions -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Family Life.
FICTION -- Suspense.
Children’s Subject Disappeared persons -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Subject FICTION -- Contemporary Women.
Genre Suspense fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Domestic fiction.
ISBN 9780812989465
0812989465