We Now Return to Regular Life, Martin Wilson
We Now Return to Regular Life, Martin Wilson
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We Now Return to Regular Life

Author: Martin Wilson

Narrator: Will Ropp, Whitney Dykhouse

Unabridged: 10 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2017

Synopsis

The Face on the Milk Carton meets The Impossible Knife of Memory in this ripped-from-the-headlines novel that explores the power of being an ally—and a friend—when a kidnapped boy returns to his hometown.Sam Walsh had been missing for three years. His older sister, Beth, thought he was dead. His childhood friend Josh thought it was all his fault. They were the last two people to see him alive.Until now. Because Sam has been found, and he’s coming home. Beth desperately wants to understand what happened to her brother, but her family refuses to talk about it—even though Sam is clearly still affected by the abuse he faced at the hands of his captor.And as Sam starts to confide in Josh about his past, Josh can’t admit the truths he’s hidden deep within himself: that he’s gay, and developing feelings for Sam. And, even bigger: that he never told the police everything he saw the day Sam disappeared.As Beth and Josh struggle with their own issues, their friends and neighbors slowly turn on Sam, until one night when everything explodes. Beth can’t live in silence. Josh can’t live with his secrets. And Sam can’t continue on until the whole truth of what happened to him is out in the open.For fans of thought-provoking stories like The Face on the Milk Carton, this is a book about learning to be an ally—even when the community around you doesn’t want you to be.

About Martin Wilson

Martin Wilson grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where both of his novels take place. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Florida, and his work has appeared in Tin House, Publishers Weekly, Austin Chronicle, One Teen Story, and other publications. His first YA novel, What They Always Tell Us, was the winner of an Alabama Author Award and a Lambda Award nominee. He currently lives in New York City, where he works as a publicist at a publishing house.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on July 31, 2017

Have you ever read a book and acknowledged that, yeah, it wasn't a perfect read, but it was the perfect read for you? That was case and point We Now Return to Regular Life for me. While this story is mainly narrated from the POVs of Beth, Sam's older sister, and Josh, his next door neighbor and frie......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on August 22, 2017

The first book to make me cry in a long time, We Now Return to Regular Life reaffirms Martin Wilson's status as one of the most skilled young-adult writers of our time. The novel begins with the return of Sam Walsh, a now fourteen-year-old boy who had been kidnapped for three years. Throughout the b......more

Goodreads review by PinkAmy loves books, cats and naps on October 07, 2021

Grade: A Sam returns home after three years of captivity no longer the mischievous boy he once was. His return throws his sister Beth's life into turmoil as she wrestles with guilt. Also feeling guilty, his friend Josh, who never told all he knew about the kidnapping. Sam's recovery, through the poin......more

Goodreads review by maria on September 04, 2017

Initial post reading thoughts: I had heard about We Now Return To Regular Life earlier this year and I instantly knew that it would be a book that I enjoyed based on its synopsis alone. Contemporary novels with darker and more serious elements are probably my favourite genre to read and this book fel......more

Goodreads review by Jill on November 25, 2017

Whoa!! What an emotional rollercoaster of lives altered by one evil act (and by one, I mean 3 years of sheer Hell). The shell of a boy returns home, trying to find some sort of normalcy in the aftermath of three years of abuse by his captor. It's hard reading about the abuse of children in any ficti......more

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