<p>Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason — photographer, fiancée, soon-to-be-stepmother — looks into her camera and commits her greatest error. Heartbreaking, uplifting, and beautifully told, here is the riveting tale of a family torn apart, of the search for the truth behind a child’s disappearance, and of one woman’s unwavering faith in the redemptive power of love — all made startlingly fresh through Michelle Richmond’s incandescent sensitivity and extraordinary insight.<br><br>Six-year-old Emma vanished into the thick San Francisco fog. Or into the heaving Pacific. Or somewhere just beyond: to a parking lot, a stranger’s van, or a road with traffic flashing by. Devastated by guilt, haunted by her fears about becoming a stepmother, Abby refuses to believe that Emma is dead. And so she searches for clues about what happened that morning — and cannot stop the flood of memories reaching from her own childhood to illuminate that irreversible moment on the beach.<br><br>Now, as the days drag into weeks, as the police lose interest and fliers fade on telephone poles, Emma’s father finds solace in religion and scientific probability — but Abby can only wander the beaches and city streets, attempting to recover the past and the little girl she lost. With her life at a crossroads, she will leave San Francisco for a country thousands of miles away. And there, by the side of another sea, on a journey that has led her to another man and into a strange subculture of wanderers and surfers, Abby will make the most astounding discovery of all — as the truth of Emma’s disappearance unravels with stunning force.<br><br>A profoundly original novel of family, loss, and hope — of the choices we make and the choices made for us — <i>The Year of Fog</i> beguiles with the mysteries of time and memory even as it lays bare the deep and wondrous workings of the human heart. The result is a mesmerizing tour de force that will touch anyone who knows what it means to love a child.</p>
Michelle Richmond
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2008-06-30T11:51:39-04:00
Photographer Abby Mason's life is changed forever by the disappearance of the young girl with whom she had been walking on a cold and foggy beach, and her desperate search for the truth behind the child's vanishing.
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The Year of Fog