Among the Missing (Audiobook)

from cvjacobs

Like Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, Morag Joss' Among the Missing has a central event that has an impact on a widely divergent group of characters. In Joss' book, a bridge collapses in Scotland, killing a husband named Stephan and his dau...

from ashleywintters

A bridge filled with cars collapses in Scotland. The vehicle license plates are captured on film. Few people escape, some are found dead and the rest presumed dead, but are in reality 'missing.' This unfortunate incident entwines the lives of three very different people. One of the missing is Ann...

from ntempest

This book starts out by discussing all the ways that people go missing each year, often by choice, hinting that while a mystery may be at the core of the story, there is also a good deal of thoughtful (and someone depressing) analysis about the outcasts of society. Joss tells the story of three s...

from Oregonreader

A bridge in Scotland collapses and three people, a pregnant woman running away from her husband, a man just out of prison for causing the death of children in an auto accident, and a woman in the country illegally are all thrown together. The chapters alternate, each written from the perspective ...

from Liz1564

A bridge collapses over a tidal river in Scotland. Some people survived, but most died, trapped in their cars and drowned in the cold river waters. How this disaster impacts the lives of the characters is the subject of this skillful novel. One characters is her early forties, the unhappy bride o...