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Nobody is ever missing : A novel by Catherine Lacey; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable life in Manhattan, her home, her career and her loving husband. As the people she has left behind scramble to figure out what has happened to her, Elyria embarks on a hitchhiker’s odyssey, testing fate by travelling in the cars of overly kind women and deeply strange men, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. As she journeys from Wellington to Picton, Takaka, Kaikoura and onwards she asks herself, what is it that I am missing? How can a person be missing?Full of mordant humour and uncanny insights, Nobody Is Ever Missing is a startling tale of love, loss, and the dangers encountered in the search for self-knowledge. It is a novel which goes far beyond the story of a physical journey and asks what it means to be human, to be a woman, and to be at the mercy of forces beyond one’s own control.°°° Catherine Lacey is the author of four books: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Certain American States and Pew. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Vogue, the New York Times and elsewhere. She is a Granta Best of Young American N

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Author
Catherine Lacey; OverDrive, Inc
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9780374711283
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Women'S Fiction
Rating
3.28 / 5 (12 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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