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by Sarah Braunstein

Author:

Sarah Braunstein

ISBN13:

978-0393076592

ISBN:

0393076598

Language:

English

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company (February 28, 2011)

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Fiction

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Women's Fiction

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The Sweet Relief of Missi. has been added to your Cart. Sarah Braunstein cracks open a world of beauty and horror and hope, and makes you long to step inside to feel and know this multi-dimensional tale from every perspective and intent, to understand even the most frightening and heartbreaking details of these all-too-human souls. I've never been given to schadenfreude.

Sarah Braunstein’s novel begins and ends with Leonora, but woven throughout the book a The Sweet Relief of Missing . This is not a novel for people who like straightforward story-telling. I seem to say that a lot lately - lots of twisty story lines these days.

Sarah Braunstein’s novel begins and ends with Leonora, but woven throughout the book a The Sweet Relief of Missing Children begins with the story of Leonora. She is pretty and tidy and protected. She has her vaccinations, she knows not to talk to strangers, she eats her vegetables and she never takes the shortcut through the alley. Bits and pieces of stories are woven together, forward and backwards in time, and it was sometimes hard to keep everything straight.

The point of leaving is that you never have to think about the fight.

The point of leaving is that you never have to think about the fight nd the way he came to feel he was a stranger to his own mother, as though he hadn’t emerged from her very cunt. Cunt! Why would he pick that brutal word? Because his mother was too selfish to have a vagina. He wouldn’t think of Gideon either, or biology class, or the model ship, or his stepfather whose dirty fingernails on his mother’s arm would forever turn his stomach.

The Sweet Relief of Missing Children is a darkly suspenseful novel that drops us off on the streets of New York City, where a precocious twelve-year-old girl, Leonora, goes missing without a trace.

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This novel marks the arrival of a fierce and important new literary voice. Sarah Braunstein is the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers' Award. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, National Book Award Finalist, author of Madeleine is Sleeping.

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"A magnificent debut filled with characters so vivid, strange, and richly imagined, you emerge feeling changed."--Sarah Shun-lien BynumIn 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.The Sweet Relief of Missing Children is a suspenseful novel about the power of running and the desire for reinvention. It explores the terror and transcendence of our most central experiences: childhood, parenthood, sex, love.

Leceri

I heard rave reviews on this book but found it disjointed, difficult to follow and boring. I couldn't find a common thread. Leonora is the one character who stands out and her fate is never resolved. (Did I miss something?) I found this book to be a complete waste of time and money.

Kupidon

This is a fantastic book, a work of art.

I was continuously taken aback by phrases and sentences that evoked intense feelings and vivid imagery in such an original way. The details, descriptions and metaphors are mind-boggling and a joy to experience. So many sentences made me pause and take a little journey- laughing, cringing, remembering, etc.-even the funnier, lighter ones had that effect: "Louise in a cranberry taffeta dress, black eyeliner." I loved this sentence so much I imagined a t-shirt emblazened with it.

Braunstein truly 'gets' and empathizes with her huge range of characters with a deep kindness of heart. As a result you can relate to each of them as well, even those with darker thoughts and wants. It evokes compassion for similar people you might find in your own life, and/or for yourself.

Even with abundance of rich descriptions and beautiful sentences I was captivated by the pace and how the characters were revealing themselves to be intertwined. I was torn between savoring each line and reading, reading, reading, bleary-eyed, in order to find out what happened next. I think I have to read this book again, and then maybe again to fully take in all of its beauty and brilliance.

BORZOTA

I read The Sweet Relief of Missing Children and simply could not put it down. Those haunting children, especially the lovely Leonora and the fragile and damaged Paul, and that spill of humanity in all of its hideous and humbling expression, chased alongside me as I read, urging me to pay attention even as my instinct was to maintain a safe distance.

Sarah Braunstein cracks open a world of beauty and horror and hope, and makes you long to step inside to feel and know this multi-dimensional tale from every perspective and intent, to understand even the most frightening and heartbreaking details of these all-too-human souls.

I've never been given to schadenfreude. I'm not the kind of person who works to see the damage in a roadside accident, craning my neck to catch sight of the blood on the windshield or a broken body in the ditch ... but these words drew me there. I found myself slowing down, re-imagining these people as my children, my mother, my sister or friend ... suspecting that I might even work alongside Byron and simply be failing to see him in my every day, little realizing his potential - both good and bad - because I at first expected that Byron would be the one to erase so much.

The story is complex and layered and never gives itself away, turning back on itself, in fact, just when you start becoming comfortable and confident. More than that, though, these vignettes - woven into this steely fabric of chance and sometimes miserable fate - holds something of all of us: our fears, our best potential, the blackness that whispers within.

Sarah's characters have haunted me a bit since I finished the book. They're more than what she wrote, and I have a feeling some of them will be with me for some time to come.

Ienekan

With The Sweet Relief of Missing Children Sarah Braunstein concocts a deeply odd yet profoundly affecting novel that is tenuously centered around Leonora, a privileged young girl who goes missing in Manhattan. I use the term "tenuously centered" because the stories of the book's other characters swirl and eddy loosely around Leonora's fate; almost none of them actually know her and some of them don't even know about her.

The characters are all so specific and finely drawn that it was a pleasure getting to know each of them and their individual stories, even though, while reading it, I sometimes had difficulty keeping track of everyone and felt slightly confused over the general direction of the book as a whole. Aside from Leonora, who is a happy and kind little girl, the two other prominent characters are dreamy drifter Paul, who has escaped a life of privation with his neglectful mother and her abusive husband, and Judith, a rebellious teen runaway who matures into just another bored suburban housewife. In addition to these three, there are numerous others whose lives intersect and overlap, influencing one another and making decisions that impact the direction of their lives. Braunstein closely follows each character, illustrating the cause-and-effect relationship between where they start and where they end up.

Like Leonora, who makes one awful, momentary error in judgment that changes the course of the rest of her life, all these people make choices, big and small, that lead them down seemingly irreversible paths. So although most of the other characters are not directly impacted by Leonora's disappearance, her relationship to them becomes a symbolic one. Her short life and the hairpin turn it takes throws into sharp relief the more protracted and "ordinary" fates of the books other characters.

I'll admit, this was a difficult review to write and I don't think I captured how involving this story (or maybe, more appropriately, these stories) turned out to be. Nor do I think my interpretation does the book justice. This is very rich material - structurally and thematically. This is not a thriller, although there is an element of suspense, nor is it a tear-jerker, although there is tragedy galore. It's a carefully constructed work of literary fiction that I recommend to anyone seeking a novel populated by complicated, believable characters that will keep you thinking long after you've read the last sentence.

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