The Sweet Relief of Missing Children

By: Sarah Braunstein

Narrated by: Xe Sands

In New York City, a girl called Leonora vanishes without a trace. Years earlier and miles upstate, Goldie, a wild, negligent mother, searches for a man to help raise her precocious son, Paul, who later discovers that the only way to save his soul is to run away. As the narrative moves back and forth in time, we find deeper interconnections between these stories and growing clues about Leonora – this missing girl whose face looks out from telephone poles and billboards – whom one character will give anything to save.

©2011 Sarah Braunstein (P)2011 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Critic reviews

"[Braunstein's] debut novel is an unsettling read that is also strangely compelling, though the author reserves all of her compassion for her characters, sparing none for her readers.... Through random encounters and elliptical dialogue, Braunstein locates the pain in these people’s lives and makes it shimmer." ( Booklist)

"The Sweet Relief of Missing Children"

I would not recommend this book. I did not care for the Narrator's voice and the book was hard to follow.