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The Hands of Strangers, Smith's debut novella, is set in the City of Lights and begs the question: how do you survive when hope is lost? Jon and Estelle work against the unanswerable, struggling against one another, against the once beautiful city, against time.
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In the tradition of The Stranger and The Old Man and the Sea, this masterful novella by critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith explores the human spirit and its capacity for faith and forgiveness in an imperfect world and begs the question: how do you survive when hope is lost? Jon and Estelle walk the picturesque Paris streets but are living through the cruelest of realities the disappearance of their nine-year-old daughter, Jennifer, abducted from the Musee d'Orsay during a class field trip. Jon spends his days slugging through bus terminals and metro halls, posting flyers of his daughter, while Estelle has become a recluse, unwilling to leave the apartment in case the telephone rings. Their relationship suffers as the passing time chips away at the hope of Jennifer's return. Then, a free-spirited artist enters their lives as unexpectedly as Jennifer has left it, luring Jon down a reckless path as he searches desperately for courage in the smallest signs. If their daughter is ever returned to them, will Jon and Estelle both be there to welcome her home?
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The writing is first rate, the story is chilling, a warning for us all, maybe even a threat reminding us how far off our game we can get without really knowing it, and how hard it might be to get back to where we started. A remarkable novella from a truly gifted young writer." -Frederick Barthelme, author of Elroy Nights and Waveland
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- PublisherMint Hill Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1599482878
- ISBN 13 9781599482873
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages123
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