In search of the perfect story to put a human face on a tragedy for his newspaper, my dad will fly into the eye of the storm. And now he’s heading to Ukraine, straight into the aftermath of a deadly earthquake. I don’t want him to leave. I don’t want to spend the week alone in a silent house with my mother, whose classically Russian reserve has built a wall between us that neither of us knows how to tear down. But I don’t tell him this. I don’t say stay.
I think I’m holding it together okay—until the FBI comes knocking on our door. Now it’s all I can do to fight off the horrifying images in my head. The quake has left so many orphans and widows, but Mom and I refuse to be counted among them. Whatever it takes to get Dad back, I’ll do it. Even if it means breaking a promise…or the law.
My Rating: 5/10
I had to read this book for a book club and it probably otherwise wouldn't have been a book that I would have chosen to read on my own.
This book was rather short (just under 300 pages) but it felt much longer because I felt like it tried to accomplish too much.
Charlotte's father who is a journalist goes missing whilst covering an earthquake in Ukraine. We see Charlotte's grief and anguish as she deals with this.
Charlotte is also about to graduate high school and commence college. She is indecisive about which branch of photography she wishes to pursue.
Then there is also the family dynamic. Charlotte's mother is Russian and there was a lot of Russian folklore thrown in there which I actually liked.
On top of all that there was a romance which felt completely out of place with the tone and other elements in this book.
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