No Time to Wave Goodbye - Hardcover

Jacquelyn Mitchard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602855870 ISBN 13: 9781602855878

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2009

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard captured the heart of a nation with The Deep End of the Ocean, her celebrated debut novel about mother Beth Cappadora, a child kidnapped, a family in crisis. Now, in No Time to Wave Goodbye, the unforgettable Cappadoras are in peril once again, forced to confront an unimaginable evil.

It has been twenty-two years since Beth Cappadora s three-year-old son Ben was abducted. By some miracle, he returned nine years later, and the family began to pick up the pieces of their lives. But their peace has always been fragile: Ben returned from the deep end as another child and has never felt entirely at ease with the family he was born into. Now the Cappadora children are grown: Ben is married with a baby girl, Kerry is studying to be an opera singer, and Vincent has emerged from his troubled adolescence as a fledgling filmmaker.

The subject of Vincent s new documentary, No Time to Wave Goodbye, shakes Vincent s unsuspecting family to the core; it focuses on five families caught in the tortuous web of never knowing the fate of their abducted children. Though Beth tries to stave off the torrent of buried emotions, she is left wondering if she and her family are fated to relive the past forever.

The film earns tremendous acclaim, but just as the Cappadoras are about to celebrate the culmination of Vincent s artistic success, what Beth fears the most occurs, and the Cappadoras are cast back into the past, revisiting the worst moment of their lives with only hours to find the truth that can save a life. High in a rugged California mountain range, their rescue becomes a desperate struggle for survival.

No Time to Wave Goodbye is Jacquelyn Mitchard at her best, a spellbinding novel about family loyalty, and love pushed to the limits of endurance.
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About this title

From the Back Cover:

It is said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. But what happens when bad luck seems to defy those odds? Twenty-two years ago, Beth Cappadora's three-year-old son, Ben, was abducted and, miraculously, returned nine years later. Now Beth's children are grown and have moved on with their lives.

Vincent has become a filmmaker, and his siblings, Ben and Kerry, help him make a stunning documentary about the trauma of kidnapping, focused on five families. The film, No Time to Wave Goodbye, shocks their mother and reopens wounds from years past. The film is nominated for an Academy Award, and as Ben is accepting the Oscar, his little girl, Stella, is snatched.

About the Author:

Jacquelyn Mitchard is the New York Times bestselling author of the first Oprah s Book Club selection, The Deep End of the Ocean, and more than a dozen other books for both adults and children. A former syndicated columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, she is a contributing editor for Parade, and her work has appeared in More, Reader s Digest, Good Housekeeping, and Real Simple, among other publications. Mitchard lives in Wisconsin with her husband and seven children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1602855870
• ISBN 13: 9781602855878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 335