Nobody is ever missing
By: Catherine Lacey
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781783780877
Subjects: Families - Fiction; New Zealand fiction; Psychological fiction; Suspense fiction; Desertion and non-support - Fiction; Young women - Fiction
Description: Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable life in Manhattan, her home, her career and her loving husband. As the people she has left behind scramble to figure out what has happened to her, Elyria embarks on a hitchhiker's odyssey, testing fate by travelling in the cars of overly kind women and deeply strange men, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. As she journeys from Wellington to Picton, Takaka, Kaikoura and onwards she asks herself, what is it that I am missing? How can a person be missing?