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Learn moreOn a cold January morning Susan leaves her husband alone for a few minutes and returns to find him gone. He has Alzheimer’s, and he has wandered alone into a frigid landscape with no sense of home or direction. Lost.
The massive search for her husband brings Susan together with Jeff, a search and rescue expert and social worker preoccupied with his young wife’s betrayal. In Jeff’s care is Corey, a young boy rendered mute and abandoned by his family after setting a fire in which his older brother was killed.
As the temperature drops and the search and rescue effort builds towards a startling climax, each of the three reflects on their life choices as they struggle with haunting and persistent questions: how am I responsible? What more could I have done?
Alice Lichtenstein graduated from Brown University and was named the Boston University Fellow in creative writing. She has received a New York Foundation of the Arts grant in fiction and has twice been a Fellow at the prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She has taught at Boston University, Wheaton College, Lesley College, and the Harvard University Summer School. She now teaches at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
Carrington MacDuffie is a singer and recording artist, who first began reading audiobooks featuring poetry. The recipient of multiple Earphones Awards and six Audi nominations, she has read novels by Jackie Collins, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Anna Quindlen’s Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and Christopher Buckley’s Florence of Arabia. She also co-narrated Transgressions: Death's Betrayal by Macmillan Audio. MacDuffe has published her own audiobook, Many Things Invisible, featuring poetry integrated with music and sound.
Reviews
“Lost is a remarkable feat in technical craftsmanship that is nonetheless shot through with much raw feeling. Alice Lichtenstein is an author not to be missed.”
“[A] brief, touching novel…Lichtenstein finds a remarkable amount of tension in the small choices her characters make…[her] compassion for, and understanding of, her characters make Lost worth reading.”
“Here is a virtuoso novel which manages to be both a nail-biting page turner and a lyrical meditation on fate and longing…This is the type of book you'll want to press into the hands of everyone you know.”
“Lost is a remarkably complex and intricately told story…constantly surprising and always illuminating.”
“Lost is gripping, riveting, electrifying, arresting, and sometimes frightening. Highly emotional and understatedly intelligent, with several narratives that come together seamlessly and unpredictably. And Susan is a great lead character: warm, complicated and totally believable. I hate to say it because it’ll sound so commonplace, but it's got to be said: I literally couldn’t put this book down.”
“The unending toll of bereavement and trauma contrasts with a glimmer of hope brought by the characters’ newfound connection in this stark and moving novel.”
“MacDuffie’s cool reading is a perfect match for the stark story and winter landscape; she conveys both sadness and increasing suspense as the search drags on. Her matter-of-fact manner makes the occasional raw language and violence fit the story and characters. MacDuffie's performance of this moving and compelling novel makes this a good fit for domestic-fiction fans.”
“Narrator Carrington MacDuffie, a recording artist, singer, writer, and actress, fully voices this story. She captures the three main voices with clarity and sensitivity.”
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