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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is a sequel to Mitchard's The Deep End of the Ocean, which was a huge hit. The story brings back the same family, the Capadoras, and once again tragedy strikes. Beth and Pat's first grandchild, the daughter of their kidnapped and returned son Ben/Sam is herself kidnapped and the family seeks to get her back. I think the book is trite and not even that well written. I was very disappointed in this book because I remember enjoying the first one so much. (  ) dablackwood | Dec 10, 2009 |  I found ths book to be ok for a Sunday aftenoon read but it wasn't the kind of book that you just can't put down and that is exactly what I did over the course of three weeks.. The beginng seemed to be a bit repetious and that was probably for the sake of readers who did not know the basis of this book 's predicessor, Deep End of the Ocean. But it was almost too much that for the first 4 or 5 chapters I wasn't quite sure I would finish the book. And most of the plot was predictable but still readable. I didn't find many surprises. The ending was good and overall it gave the reader a sense of appreciating family. I would only recommend this book to die hard fans of the author. ( ) Judgejudy2u | Nov 18, 2009 | Vincent Cappadora never quit blaming himself for his little brother Ben's abduction. Even after Ben is returned home, Vincent still dwells on the fact that he was supposed to be holding Ben's hand when he was taken from them. In an attempt to relieve himself of the guilt he feels, Vincent makes a documentary about abducted children, never imagining what it would lead his family down an all too familiar road. (  ) brendaholmes | Nov 17, 2009 | I read and enjoyed 'The Deep End of the Ocean' years ago, so I thought I would enjoy 'No Time to Wave Goodbye' as well. I was very disappointed. Mitchard assumes we know her characters already, and jumps right in. It's been a while since I read 'Ocean' so it took me a while to have any feeling for the Cappadoras. Character is so important to me as I read, and I had a hard time distinguishing between Ben/Sam and Vincent, remembering who was married and who not, and so forth. The story struck me as implausible and contrived, from beginning (the Oscar winning documentary) to end (the daring trek through snow to rescue the baby.) I did finish reading it, and was somewhat engaged with the story, but I have to say there were a lot of problems with this book. (  ) rglossne | Nov 13, 2009 | If you read The Deep End Of The Ocean and loved it as much as I did I think you will love this book. Jacquelyn Mitchard does not disappoint. I am sometimes leery of sequels. This one was excellent! I once again fell in love with the Cappadora family. They have all aged a little but still are pretty much the same people they were in the first novel. I felt like I never lost touch with them. They have all been affected by Ben/Sam's kidnapping and eventual return. It has played a huge role in the people they have become. I think it's interesting that this book addresses not only kidnapping but what happens after. How do families go on living? This book pulls you in right from the get go. It seems the family is adjusting well to life. The kids are grown. Ben/Sam is married and a father, Kerry is on her way to becoming an opera singer, and Vincent has made a documentary which will change all their lives. Unfortunately the Cappadora's have to relive the horrible past with a new kidnapping in the family. It's hard to review it and not give the story away so I won't say too much. I read the bulk of the book in one day. I could not put it down. I just had to know what happened. There are many twists in the novel. Just when I thought I had it figured out, there was another suspect in my mind. I felt Beth's pain as she relived her own nightmare but then has to also watch her son live the same nightmare. I absolutely loved this book! This is one of the best books I have read this year. (  ) bookaholicmom | Oct 21, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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It has been twenty-two years since Beth Cappadora’s three-year-old son Ben was abducted. By some miracle, he returned nine years later, and the family began to pick up the pieces of their lives. But their peace has always been fragile: Ben returned from the deep end as another child and has never felt entirely at ease with the family he was born into. Now the Cappadora children are grown: Ben is married with a baby girl, Kerry is studying to be an opera singer, and Vincent has emerged from his troubled adolescence as a fledgling filmmaker.
The subject of Vincent’s new documentary, “No Time to Wave Goodbye,” shakes Vincent’s unsuspecting family to the core; it focuses on five families caught in the tortuous web of never knowing the fate of their abducted children. Though Beth tries to stave off the torrent of buried emotions, she is left wondering if she and her family are fated to relive the past forever.
The film earns tremendous acclaim, but just as the Cappadoras are about to celebrate the culmination of Vincent’s artistic success, what Beth fears the most occurs, and the Cappadoras are cast back into the past, revisiting the worst moment of their lives—with only hours to find the truth that can save a life. High in a rugged California mountain range, their rescue becomes a desperate struggle for survival.
No Time to Wave Goodbye is Jacquelyn Mitchard at her best, a spellbinding novel about family loyalty, and love pushed to the limits of endurance.
An Essay by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Motherhood—The Sequel How I grieved when my three older sons—“gen one” of my seven children—began to achieve young manhood. Every inch they grew made me shrink a little inside. The older they got, the less they would need me. I’d lost the sweet confidences, heartfelt hugs and even unruly tears of the little boys I’d known as a first-time mom. And I thought I had lost my sons.
How wrong I was.
Sure, I still miss those first little boys (although my youngest children today are little boys, too, just three and five). I still miss my effortless size six jeans, too. I haven’t seen them since.
But the way I feel about my older sons took me completely by surprise—as does the way they feel about me.
Like my character Beth Cappadora in No Time To Wave Goodbye, I thought motherhood was time-limited, a vocation that required gear, mittens with zippers, and car seats and bags of Cheerios. When I put away childish things, I felt, just as Beth did, that I’d outlived my usefulness to growing guys. I was just a sweet-and-sour relic of their past and. While I was anything but “finished” with them, they were more than finished with me. But that turned out to be only adolescence.
As they grew older, I learned that they needed their mother differently, but equally urgently, as they did when they needed me to hold their spoons.
It’s against me that they practice the beliefs I tried to instill (the ones they now praise as genuinely as they previously rejected them). It’s with me that they offer a more quaint and tender courtship than they give their girlfriends—only the flowers on the bedside table are roses instead of dandelions.
I never imagined the bond I would feel when I heard Marty, 19, sing on a stage in front of 500 people—and saw him search the crowd for my face. I never anticipated the thrill of accompanying my 22-year-old chef-in-training to dinner and listening with quiet pride as he ordered for both of us. I marvel as my Rob, 25, (a fiercely indifferent high school student) now worries every college grade to an A—then turns to me for approval.
And so the “sequel” to my biggest bestselling novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, is more than a tale of a family tested beyond the limits of endurance, twice in a lifetime. It’s a story that reflects so much of what I’ve learned in 13 intervening years since the book was published. Love that changes isn’t love lost; just as mist and ice are only water in another form, equally lovely.
Beth Cappadora learns more than how tough she really is in her sons’ time of agony in No Time To Wave Goodbye. She learns that she’s still a mother and she still matters.
And so did I. —Jacquelyn Mitchard
(Photo © Liane R. Harrison)
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