by Peter Rock
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I especially liked the tone of the narrator, Caroline. She is straightforward and guileless, which seemed appropriate for someone who has been raised alongside but separate from society, and who has been taught to mistrust everyone who is not her father. I can't imagi...
I had forgotten that My Abandonment was largely based on a true story. (The author's website has .pdf copies of the articles he was drawing from.) Somebody from Oregon, and maybe the Pacific Northwest in general, might remember when this was in the news, but I wasn't familiar with it. The second hal...
Weird but oddly compelling story of a girl & her father who live off the grid.
This novel tells the story of a man and his daughter who lives in a Portland park for 4 years without detection. It's not that they don't have the money to live elsewhere (the father gets checks from the government), but that they've chosen to live in the woods rather than the way everyone else live...
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