My Abandonment, Peter Rock
My Abandonment, Peter Rock
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My Abandonment

Author: Peter Rock

Narrator: Tai Sammons

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2009

Synopsis

Thirteenyearold Caroline and her father have lived for four years on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, in Forest Park. He has homeschooled her using encyclopedias and books from the library while also teaching her a rigid code of behavior that enables them to survive in this wilderness. Yet one small mistake allows the authorities to discover them. Their forced relocation to a horse farm outside of the city becomes only a brief respite to their deeper flight from a world that cant understand them.

About Peter Rock

Peter Rock is the author of ten works of fiction, including My Abandonment, which won the Alex Award and was adapted into the film Leave No Trace. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is a professor of creative writing at Reed College. He lives in Portland with his wife and two daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan

I like this book in a similar way to how I enjoyed Room, they are both innocent perspectives. Coincidentally, I didn’t realize My Abandonment was based on actual events or that it was meant to be YA (it was recommended to me by a goodreads page that is definitely adult). I figured out it was actual......more

Goodreads review by Carol

I have mixed feelings about this book. It was a fast, thought-provoking read; but it left me with many unanswered questions, particulary since it was based on a true case. The beginning of the book seemed to include many facts that had been published in news articles, but the ending was Peter Rock's......more

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