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The good parents : [a novel] / Joan London.

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  • ISBN: 9780802170576 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0802170579 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 349 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Black Cat : 2008.

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Subject: Family > Australia > Fiction.
Parent and adult child > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Australia > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.

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The Good Parents
The Good Parents
by London, Joan
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The Good Parents


A two-time winner of Australia's prestigious The Age Book of the Year Award, Joan London's debut novel, Gilgamesh , was published to rapturous acclaim both in her native Australia and in the United States. Now, London has delivered The Good Parents , a tender and compelling tale of mother love and the harrowing moment when a daughter spreads her wings and vanishes from her parents' orbit. Maya de Jong is an eighteen-year-old country girl who moves to Melbourne and begins an affair with her new boss. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive for a visit, Maya is gone--no one knows where. Maya, for reasons of her own, leaves haunting clues in late-night calls to her brother at home, carefully avoiding detection by the two people who love her most. Ultimately, to find her daughter Toni will have to revisit a part of her past that she thought she had shut off forever--the closest she ever came to being a lost girl herself. The Good Parents is at once utterly contemporary and a story as old as humanity itself: a stunning portrait of familial love and how far we can drift apart in the moments between the words we speak.

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