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I AM EXCITED TO SHARE WITH YOU ABOUT
THIS RECENT AUDIO BOOK I RECEIVED
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DO NOT BECOME ALARMED
Read by the Author
BY MAILE MELOY
Read by the Author
BY MAILE MELOY
ABOUT THE AUDIO BOOK:
The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls “smart and thrilling and impossible to put down… the book that every reader longs for.”
“This summer’s undoubtable smash hit… an addictive, heart-palpitating story.” —Marie Claire
The sun is shining, the sea is blue, the children have disappeared.
When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The adults are lulled by the ship’s comfort and ease. The four children—ages six to eleven—love the nonstop buffet and their newfound independence. But when they all go ashore for an adventure in Central America, a series of minor misfortunes and miscalculations leads the families farther from the safety of the ship. One minute the children are there, and the next they’re gone.
The disintegration of the world the families knew—told from the perspectives of both the adults and the children—is both riveting and revealing. The parents, accustomed to security and control, turn on each other and blame themselves, while the seemingly helpless children discover resources they never knew they possessed.
Do Not Become Alarmed is a story about the protective force of innocence and the limits of parental power, and an insightful look at privileged illusions of safety. Celebrated for her spare and moving fiction, Maile Meloy has written a gripping novel about how quickly what we count on can fall away, and the way a crisis shifts our perceptions of what matters most.
The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls “smart and thrilling and impossible to put down… the book that every reader longs for.”
“This summer’s undoubtable smash hit… an addictive, heart-palpitating story.” —Marie Claire
The sun is shining, the sea is blue, the children have disappeared.
When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The adults are lulled by the ship’s comfort and ease. The four children—ages six to eleven—love the nonstop buffet and their newfound independence. But when they all go ashore for an adventure in Central America, a series of minor misfortunes and miscalculations leads the families farther from the safety of the ship. One minute the children are there, and the next they’re gone.
The disintegration of the world the families knew—told from the perspectives of both the adults and the children—is both riveting and revealing. The parents, accustomed to security and control, turn on each other and blame themselves, while the seemingly helpless children discover resources they never knew they possessed.
Do Not Become Alarmed is a story about the protective force of innocence and the limits of parental power, and an insightful look at privileged illusions of safety. Celebrated for her spare and moving fiction, Maile Meloy has written a gripping novel about how quickly what we count on can fall away, and the way a crisis shifts our perceptions of what matters most.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter; the short story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the “10 Best Books of 2009” by the New York Times Book Review); and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review‘s
Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal
Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was shortlisted for the
UK’s Orange Prize for Fiction and chosen as one of Granta‘s Best Young American Novelists. Photo: © Courtesy of Maile Meloy
SOME OTHER BOOKS BY MAILE MELOY:
4 comments:
I've read this author before - this is a new one for me. Thanks for the review.
I can't even imagine the torment of losing your children. GREAT review!
I have never read this author but would like to. Missing children is a scary topic. My son once went to a boy scout meeting without telling me. So I was in panic mode that time.
Wow, it sounds good and unfortunately, all too possible. Even the title, while trying to be whimsical with that typeface, seems foreboding.
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