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Loading... Where things come back : a novel (original 2011; edition 2011)by John Corey Whaley
Work InformationWhere Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley (2011)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is not a good book for the extreme linear thinker. I found it a bit frustrating, but maybe that is because too much internet browsing and magazine reading is making my attention span way too short! This is definitely a mellow story, and will appeal to people who like a quirky plot. In my mind, I pictured the whole thing like a Wes Anderson movie. Young Adult book. A brother goes missing in the small town of Lily, Arkansas around the same time that the long-thought extinct Lazarus Woodpecker is sighted. The town and family negotiate the hopeful aspect of a boom from the Lazarus while the family tries to deal with their missing son/brother. Great characterizations of both small town life, grieving and growing up. Throw in a few quirky characters and some serious Southern Baptist flair and it makes for a very enjoyable read. no reviews | add a review
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Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance. No library descriptions found. |
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My favorite parts were not the main story about the Witter brothers in small-town Arkansas, but the B story about a young missionary's crisis of faith and its subsequent affect on his otherwise average college roommate.
There was something [b:Catcher in the Rye|5107|The Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1329189899s/5107.jpg|3036731]-esque about Cullen's teenage malaise, which I think will have huge appeal for teenagers (duh). As a 29-year-old woman, I'm not the target audience for this kind of stuff, so take it with a grain of salt when I say that Cullen's zombie fantasies and talking about himself in the third person mostly bored me.
But, overall, I liked it. I'm excited to see what Whaley writes next and I congratulate him on a very promising debut. ( )