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9781538700563
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paperback
(OCoLC)1143355419
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Alexander, Kirsten,.
Half-Moon Lake.
Lost Boy Found /
Kirsten Alexander.
First Grand Central trade paperback edition.
New York :
Grand Central Publishing,
2020.
x, 350 pages ;
21 cm.
Includes Reading Group Guide (pages 343-350).
"Originally published as a Bantam trade paperback entitled Half-Moon Lake in 2019"--Title page verso.
"In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not to give in to despair. Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found in the company of a tramp. But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. And when Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports' own friends, take sides. As the tramp's kidnapping trial begins, and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they'd ever dreamed"--
Provided by publisher.
20220718.
Missing children
Fiction. .
Mistaken identity
Fiction.
Kidnapping
Fiction.
Tramps
Fiction.
Unmarried mothers
Fiction.
Parent and child
Fiction.
Custody of children
Fiction.
Louisiana
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.