Title: My Abandonment
First published: 2008
Description: **NOW A MAJOR FILM, LEAVE NO TRACE, DIRECTED BY DEBRA GRANIK AND STARRING BEN FOSTER AND THOMASIN HARCOURT MCKENZIE**

A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water's edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep a library of sorts. Once a week they go to the city to buy groceries and otherwise merge with the civilized world. But one small mistake allows a backcountry jogger to discover them, which derails their entire existence, ultimately provoking a deeper flight.


Inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of its young narrator, Caroline, My Abandonment is a riveting journey into life at the margins and a mesmerizing tale of survival and hope.
Subjects: Fathers and daughters, Teenage girls, Homeless families, Fiction, Wilderness areas, Survival skills, Survival, Fiction, psychological, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Portland (or.), fiction
Places: Forest Park (Portland, Or.), Pacific Northwest, Or.) Forest Park (Portland
LC classification: PS3568.O327 M9 2008