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Title: RIVETING
Review: This book captured the intense grief parents feel in losing a child. Ben, suddenly disappears in the midst of his mother, Beth's high school reunion. The focus was largely on Beth's feelings of guilt, anger and even loathing for all that is not Ben. The other children, the eldest in particular see that their mother has also left. Her daily life becomes a struggle in an effort not to follow her lost child to the unfathomable limbo he has disappeared into. The family is shattered to pieces and their relationships with each other experiences a slow and painful death. When Ben is found, it seems that salvation has presented itself and hope arises. However, reality refuses to erase the past. And again they must come to terms with another form of death. The death of hope that their lives and family may be reconstructed to what it once was before their nightmare began.
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