How to be lost
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Amanda Eyre Ward.
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Missing persons -- Fiction.; Women travelers -- Fiction.; Waitresses -- Fiction.; Sisters -- Fiction.; New Orleans (La) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "To their neighbors in suburban Holt, New York, the Winters family has it all: a grand home, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they are safe in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the Winters family are exposed. Joseph, once a successful businessman, succumbs to his demons. Isabelle retreats into memories of her debutante days in Savannah, Georgia. And Ellie's bereft sisters grow apart: Madeline reluctantly stays home, while Caroline runs away." "Fifteen years later, Caroline, now a New Orleans cocktail waitress, sees a photograph of a woman in a magazine. Convinced that it is Ellie all grown up, Caroline embarks on a search for her missing sister, armed with Xerox copies of the photograph, an amateur detective guide, and a cooler of Dixie beer. As Caroline travels through the New Mexico desert, the mountains of Colorado, and the smoky underworld of Montana, she devotes herself to salvaging her broken family."--BOOK JACKET.