Songs For the Missing

Songs for the Missing: A Novel by Stewart O'Nan


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book was unimaginably sad which affected my overall rating. I really cannot abide by really sad subject matter for some reason. Especially when it is unrelenting as was the case for this book where there is no happy ending. I didn’t finish ‘The Lovely Bones’ for this reason and I likely won’t see that movie, either.

This book was written beautifully and was a little like a thriller for the first few months after Kim went missing, but it turned into a devastating manual on how not to grieve as evidenced the way each character came to turns with the loss of their daughter, sister, friend. It was too much for me and I can’t say I would recommend it.

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