Timothy Schaffert has created his most memorable character yet in Essie, an octogenarian obituary writer for her family s small town newspaper. When a young country girl is reported to be missing, perhaps whisked away by an itinerant aerial photographer, Essie stumbles onto the story of her life. Or, it all could be simply a hoax, or a delusion, the child and child-thief invented from the desperate imagination of...
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