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<p>A powerful debut set in New Mexico over a long hot summer of surprises and discoveries.<br><br>Lynn Fleming happily abandoned dusty Albuquerque to study art history in New York, but when her younger brother disappears she reluctantly answers their mother&#8217;s summons and returns home. Although she soon finds Wylie among the eco-warriors for whom he&#8217;s a philosopher king, she begins to realize how much else is still missing. Her memories of her late cherished father are compromised by her mother&#8217;s relationship with a married man. And her fascination with two paintings her father left behind leads her to question everything she&#8217;d believed about her parents&#8217; marriage and, by extension, her own behavior. Meanwhile, her attempt to regain Wylie&#8217;s affection is unsettled by her affair with one of his cohorts, even as the pranks they play&#8211;in order to protect the landscape they see being violated all around them&#8211;grow increasingly serious and then spiral out of control, putting everyone at risk.<br><br>A story of homecoming and coming-of-age, of convictions shaken and regained, of unspeakable loss and hard-won reconciliation, <i>The Missing Perso

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Author

Alix Ohlin

Publisher

New York: Vintage Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400031382

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.32 / 5 (151 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14