Vanishing Acts (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Delia Hopkins(Bethany Matthews): Delia works for the Vermont Search and Rescue with her bloodhound Greta. She has a four year daughter named Sophie and her husband to be is Sophie's father Eric. Delia thinks that her mother died in a car crash when she was young, but she soon finds out otherwise. Delia is strong- willed and a good friend and mother. She is thirty-two.M.S.
• Eric Talcott: Delia's boyfriend, Sophie's father. Eric is an alcoholic, but tries to be sober for the sake of Sopie and Delia.
• Andrew Hopkins (Charles Matthews): He is Delia's father. He works at a Senior Center where he is well- liked by all of the elderly. He and Delia are very close.
• Fitz: Delia's & Eric's best friend
• Elise Vasquez: Delia's mother.
• Sophie Isabel Talcott: Delia's and Eric's daughter
• Victor Vasquez: Elise's husband
• Concise: Andrew's black cell-mate in prison
• Ruthann Masáwistiwa: Wise and humorous Hopi Indian woman living in the trailer park next to Delia
• Emma Wasserstein: prosecuting attorney
• Sticks: Bad prison gang member
• Greta Groucho Marx: Delia's search and rescue dog
• Wilma: Ruthann's sister who lives on a Hopi reservation
• Christopher Hamilton: Eric's paralegal and old friend.
• Mrs. Nguyen: Delia's nursery school teacher
• Flaco: Add a description of this character.
• Rydell
• Katie Desmond
• Ken
• Talátawi
• Rabbit
• D. Andrew
• Orwell LeGrande
• Juan Diego
• Irving Baumschnagel
• Mr. Schnurr
• Caesar T. Noble
• Mike
• Blue Loc
• Masauwu
• Sondra
• Josephina
• Sikyátavo
• Elise Hopkins
• Maria Damato
• Louise Masáwistiwa
• Marge Geraghy
• Doucette
• Holly Gardiner
• Elizabeth Peshman
• Rubio Greengate
• Alice Young
• Derek Deer
• Itzy Fisher
• Alison Rebbard
• Margaret Ketcham Hopkins
• Voodoo Eric
• Mr. Baumschnagel
• Mr. Greengate
• Charles Edward Matthews
• Emeril
• Robert Frost
• Abigail Nguyen
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Dorothy Hamill
• Elise Matthews
• John Deere
• Fitzwilliam MacMurray
• Cordelia Lynn Hopkins

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• “When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”

• “Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.”

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• What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

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• But a witness is defined through what he sees, not what he says. And just because you keep something a secret doesn’t mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

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• It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

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• Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.

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• That people don’t vanish into thin air; that when you can’t find someone, it’s because you’ve been misdirected to look elsewhere.

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• “You can love a person and still hate the decisions they’ve made, can’t you?”

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• triumverate; as adults, we are still remarkably close. In fact, Fitz will be pulling double

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Arizona
• Wexton
• Madison Street Jail
• New Hampshire
• Phoenix
• Scottsdale
• Siwa
• Second Mesa
• Harlem
• Vermont

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Jodi Picoult (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3566.I372 V36 2005
• Dewey: 813.54

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Adult themes

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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