The Missing Person
 

The Missing Person

by Alix Ohlin

When art history grad student Lynn Fleming finds out that Wylie, her younger brother, has disappeared, she reluctantly leaves New York and returns to the dusty Albuquerque of her youth. What she finds when she arrives is more unsettling and frustrating than she could have predicted. Wylie is nowhere to be found, not in the tiny apartment he shares with a grungy band of eco-warriors, or... (read more)

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Artemis_98
  • Rated 2 stars

I didn't like this book. I found it quite boring. But it got a great review in the NYTimes:

May 22, 2005
'The Missing Person': Scent of a Plumber
By SOPHIE HARRISON

THE missing person in this polished first novel is Lynn Fleming's brother, Wylie, and it's also the narrator herself, who knows she is ''a type, part of a crop, one in a long line of art-history girls with the same education and wisecracks and shoes.'' Lynn hates her hometown, Albuquerque, and she's left...

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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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