vanishing acts, jodi picoult
VANISHING ACTS
jodi picoult
vanishing acts is the story of delia hopkins. she works with her dog, greta, doing search and rescue. her fiance, eric talcott, is an alcoholic in the act of trying to clean up. they have one child, sophie. she has a happy, comfortable life, until her father is arrested on the charge of kidnapping a girl named bethany matthews.
bethany matthews is delia. she was kidnapped twenty-eight years before by her father, told her mother had died in a car accident. her father, andrew, was an active member of society, well-respected, and loved by delia. but when he is arrested and her fiance, eric, takes on the case, and delia meets her mother, her relationships, her memory and her trust in everyone she believed she could count on will be tested.
i absolutely adored this book. there are many quotable passages and it keeps you surprised.
"there are two kinds of love...in the safe kind, you look for someone who's exactly like you. it's what most folks settle for. but then there's the other kind of love. everyone's born with a ragged edge, and some folks crave the piece that's a perfect fit. you'll search for it forever, if you have to. and if you're lucky enough to find it, it looks so right, you start to tear at your own seams, thinking, maybe, i could look just as perfect. but then, of course, when you try to get close to their other half, you don't fit anymore. that kind of love...you come out of it a different person than when you started."
"what if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting back from each of these places to the next?"