How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the award-winning author of The Old Drift.
I don't want to tell you what happened, I want to tell you how it felt.
One summer, when Cassandra Williams is twelve, and her little brother Wayne is seven, disaster strikes, and Wayne is lost forever. Though his body is never recovered, for C and her family the search for answers never stops. Her mother, unable to give up hope, launches an organization dedicated to missing children. Her father simply leaves, starts another family somewhere else.
As C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in coffee shops, airplane aisles, subways cars, cities on either coast. Here is her brother's older face, the color of his eyes, his lanky limbs, the way he seems to recognize her too. But it can't be, of course. Or can it? Until one day, disaster strikes again, and Cee meets a man who is both mysterious and strangely familiar- a man also searching for someone, as well as his own place in the world. His name is Wayne.
