She doesn't go into that, so the reader is left with the impression that she's doing nothing proactive to help her children the entire time they are gone. April Henry's books have turned into a "thing" with my middle school students. For her, the ability to see a "footprint in soft grass outside a bedroom window" becomes a matter of survival. It is almost shocking that they have survived, This book left me with a lot of questions. I look forward to reading other books by Hannah Nyala in the near future. Please try again. I would recommend it for YA. Given my lousy memory that's saying something. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. A sad memoir revolving around a woman's experience of ongoing domestic violence and intimidation. A Matter of Trust (2013) A Deadly Business (2014) Lethal Beauty (2015) Point Last Seen series. So while she tracks other people to save them, she is also being tracked by her ex-husband for violent reasons. Her book gives a fascinating look inside this world; her training and her practicing; her nervousness at being given the lead, as a relative neophyte, in the search for a little girl. I thought a lot about how the author's grandmother, parents and religious and southern upbringing may have contributed to her acceptance of the terrible abuse she suffered. Nyala recounts life-and-death rescue missions yet questions the "action-junkie" approach to tracking lost people. You really feel like you know Hannah by the end of this. The passage of time was not well delineated. I've always loved stories about survival and it was very interesting to see the story coming from someone on the other end of survival. Very interesting and addicting. She does not dwell on it, but neither can she escape it. Not a book that is written by a writer, that seems evident, as the story is choppy, inconsistent and leaves quite a few questions. When a woman's body is found in a Portland park, suspicion falls on an awkward kid who lives only a few blocks away, a teen who collects knives, loves first-person shooter video games, and obsessively doodles violent scenes in his school notebooks. The subtext is about the darkness that can haunt and control a family, but the reward is the strength to come after. Unlimited listening to select Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts. But a memoir, drawn from a life in fits and starts, the structure is often an improvisation on memory and emotion. But overshadowing Nyala's experience as an increasingly capable tracker is the fact that she herself is a tracked woman. Alexis, Nick, and Ruby have very different backgrounds: Alexis has spent her life covering for her mom's mental illness, Nick's bravado hides his fear of not being good enough, and Ruby just wants to pursue her eccentric interests in a world that doesn't understand her. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Blood Will Tell: A Point Last Seen Mystery (Point Last Seen, 2). I was shaking with impotent rage a, Not a book that is written by a writer, that seems evident, as the story is choppy, inconsistent and leaves quite a few questions. She writes with a clear voice, unfettered by rationalization or second guessing or blame. Blood Will Tell (Point Last Seen) Go to book. However, her writing is solid and skillful. Book 2 Reading Hannah Nyala's POINT LAST SEEN has helped solve this for me. For. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. (Could her parents not chip in and help to pay for that lawyer? After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. I heard the interview of the author on NPR and searched out a copy of her memoir, published 20 years ago. Cancel online anytime. Hannah Nyala's Point Last Seen is a tremendous nonfiction book told by a search-and-rescue tracker who's also an escaped battered wife and mother. It keeps the suspense up. Not the case here, we have a well-trained human tracker, whose homicidal and violently abusive ex-husband takes the children from her for long periods of time. This book is still with me six months after reading it. Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2016. It’s a domestic violence story. Visit her website at, Mariah Carey Is Telling Her Own Story (and Recommending Books). The writing could be better--Nyala is very dry and to-the-point--but this is a fascinating story. Welcome back. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Reading Hannah Nyala's POINT LAST SEEN has helped solve this for me. Hannah Nyala carries us and that burden well. When you leave things almost always get much worse, and sometimes they stay that way for a very long time." I write mysteries and thrillers. It was a case of: if the gun is put on the mantle in act one, it better go off in act three.

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