My abandonment
By: Peter Rock
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780151014149; 9780156035521
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Teenage girls; Homeless families; Fiction; Wilderness areas; Survival skills
Description: In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," Rock's "My Abandonment," inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of his young protagonist, offers a riveting and unsettling account of a girl and her father who live off the grid.