"Like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, De Gregorio takes a true story
and reveals what life cannot. Extraordinary."-Grazia Irina's life
with her husband and her twin daughters is orderly. An Italian
living in Switzerland, she works as a lawyer. One day, something
breaks. The marriage ends without apparent trauma, but on a weekend
seemingly like any other, the girls' father takes Alessia and Livia
away with him. They disappear. A few days later the man takes his
own life. Of the girls, there is no trace. Concita De Gregorio
takes the unadorned, terrible facts of this true story and embodies
the protagonist's voice. In a narrative that is fast and urgent,
she unravels these traumatic events to tell the story of a mother
bereft of her children - a state for which there is no word. An
urgently told story and a fierce portrait of a woman in all her
frailty and courage, The Missing Word delves deep into Irina's
thoughts and memories as she grasps at the shreds of truth and,
piece by piece, stitches her life back together.
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