My Abandonment: Now a major film, ‘Leave No Trace', directed by Debra Granik ('Winter's Bone')
Jun 2018 · Hachette UK
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'A beautiful, strange novel . . . Fascinating and moving, it tells with great tenderness how human love goes wrong' Ursula K. Le Guin
'The recent novel I recommend most . . . a short, disciplined, unsettling book' Hanya Yanagihara
Thirteen-year-old Caroline and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. Day to day, they live in an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water's edge, tend a garden and even keep a library of sorts. Once a week they go to the city to buy groceries and otherwise merge with the civilised world. But one small mistake allows a jogger to discover them, which derails their entire existence.
Inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of its young narrator, Caroline, My Abandonment is a gripping journey into life in the wilderness and a mesmerizing tale of survival and hope.
'The recent novel I recommend most . . . a short, disciplined, unsettling book' Hanya Yanagihara
Thirteen-year-old Caroline and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. Day to day, they live in an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water's edge, tend a garden and even keep a library of sorts. Once a week they go to the city to buy groceries and otherwise merge with the civilised world. But one small mistake allows a jogger to discover them, which derails their entire existence.
Inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of its young narrator, Caroline, My Abandonment is a gripping journey into life in the wilderness and a mesmerizing tale of survival and hope.
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Simon Larsson
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September 2, 2023
I'm torn about several aspects of this book. The main character's style of writing gets annoying, but it does let the reader know her in ways a third-party perspective wouldn't in the same way. The third act twists a few knives in the reader's back, but that shouldn't have to be a bad thing, even though I was very unhappy with it. Don't bring expectations from the film Leave No Trace into reading this book; they are quite separate experiences.
Steven Mackenzie
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August 2, 2018
So moving😓😓😓
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About the author
Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. My Abandonment won an Alex Award, the Utah Book Award, and been published in various countries and languages. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared and been anthologised widely. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and other awards, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches writing at Reed College.
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