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How to Be Lost

A Novel

By Amanda Eyre Ward

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| Paperback | 9780345483171

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Joseph and Isabelle Winters seem to have it all: a grand home in Holt, New York, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they are safe in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the family are exposed: Joseph, once a successful businessContinue

Joseph and Isabelle Winters seem to have it all: a grand home in Holt, New York, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they are safe in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the family are exposed: Joseph, once a successful businessman, succumbs to his demons; Isabelle retreats into memories of her debutante days in Savannah; and Ellie’s bereft sisters grow apart–Madeline reluctantly stays home, while Caroline runs away.

Fifteen years later, Caroline, now a New Orleans cocktail waitress, sees a photograph of a woman in a magazine. Convinced that it is Ellie all grown up, Caroline embarks on a search for her missing sister. Armed with copies of the photo, an amateur detective guide, and a cooler of Dixie beer, Caroline travels through the New Mexico desert, the mountains of Colorado, and the smoky underworld of Montana, determined to salvage her broken family.

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  • How to be Lost

    How to be Lost Amanda Eyre Ward Ballantine Paperback 320 pages August 2005 Amanda Eyre Ward is a talented author whose second novel, How To Be Lost, is a well-crafted tale of the emotional landscape of loss. From an upper-class New York neighborhood ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

  • How to Be Lost

    I’m willing to bet Amanda Eyre Ward is a fan of fairy tales—the kind where children are snatched away by shadowy figures, quests embarked upon by unlikely heroes come to happy fruition, and families, in all their messy love and loathing, understand n ... (read full critics)

    believermag published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

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  • *** This comment contains spoilers! ***

    It needed to continue at least through the thoughts and feeling of being reunited after all of these years w/their long lost sister. I don't like that it ended w/Ellie simply walking up to the door.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 320 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0345483170
  • ISBN-13: 9780345483171
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • Pub date: Aug 30, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and eBook
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