I am surprised at the number of high ratings on this book. I clearly did not read the same book as so many of the other reviewers. The characters seemed to be moving in their own spaces, but none seemed connected to another. I continually had to remind myself who Amy was, who Ginny was, who Frank was. The "action" in the book felt contrived, overly fraught with bravado, and irrelevant to anything else within the novel. Instead of a flow of events, each scene felt like an un-related occurrence having no relation to any other event. There was no story arc, and I did not care what happened to any of the characters. Nothing seemed resolved, even by the epilogue. I was especially disappointed by the laziness of the author to use "situated" in two consecutive sentences. That's just sloppiness, and there is no excuse for that kind of writing in a published book in today's day and age of multiple revisions, editors, and proofreaders. Sensitive and beautiful-it's the story of a family in a little town where the disappearance of a little girl sets the atmosphere. Each one of the parents and their two daughters goes through loss and fear of abandonment, and even when they are together there's a screaming loneliness. I enjoyed getting to know them all, and especially loved accompanying the young daughter, Sissy, through her life in away that seemed to put me under her skin.
What do You think about De Terugkeer (2009)?
Uitgelezen maar het kon me niet bekoren.
—skunk
Started out slow, but totally worth it.
—jchammonds
