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  <title><![CDATA[The Truth About Celia]]></title>
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  <default_description>While playing alone in her backyard one afternoon, seven-year-old Celia suddenly disappears while her father Christopher is inside giving a tour of their historic house and her mother Janet is at an orchestra rehearsal.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Utterly shattered, Christopher, a writer of fantasy and science fiction, withdraws from everyone around him, especially his wife, losing himself in his writing by conjuring up worlds where Celia still exists&amp;#8212;as a child, as a teenager, as a young single mother&amp;#8212;and revealing in his stories not only his own point of view but also those of Janet, the policeman in charge of the case, and the townspeople affected by the tragedy, ultimately culminating in a portrait of a small town changed forever&lt;i&gt;. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Truth About Celia&lt;/b&gt; is a profound meditation on grief and loss and how we carry on in its aftermath.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2003</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kevin Brockmeier]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 24 07:18:43 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i dont know that the conceit of this book was emphatic enough, or even necessary, but i dont care, i love his writing. i could read about 400 more pages of this story - i like my imaginary-multiple-perspective-narratives loooong, baby. okay, ive decided -  he should email me one story a day continui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43773784">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gosh, what the hell is wrong with Keven Brockmeier?  One minute he's writing classic short stories like &quot;The Ceiling&quot;, the next minute he's writing stuff like this.  I mean, this isn't a bad book, by any measure.  But do we really need more disappeared child, sad parent novels?  And the wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/953552">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 17 19:19:34 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 17 19:33:41 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Truth About Celia&quot; is an odd book, but not nearly as odd as I expected it to be. The novel, written by Kevin Brockmeier, is written as if it is the novel written by Christopher Brooks, a science fiction and fantasy author whose daughter, Celia, disappeared. The novel, then, is his way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78149946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48138996">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kevin Brockmeier is one of the authors concerning whom I have made it my duty to read every possible published work. With this one complete, I only have one to go, and like everything else he's written, The Truth About Celia is incredible.<br/><br/>Concerning, as a brief glance at the back cover w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48138996">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29922890">
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been hearing a lot about K. Brock. (as he's referred to in the IC) for a long time, but it took me to two years to actually read one of his books. I'm glad to be in on the joke, but I'm still a little perplexed by the whole thing. The only thing that will stay with me from this book is how prec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29922890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29827647">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 11 02:57:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book!  It's a book of short stories, supposedly written by Christopher Brooks, the father of a girl who disappeared from her yard when she was seven.  Brooks doesn't move on or get over his daughter's disappearance:  he is haunted by it.  The only way for him to keep writing, it seems, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29827647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9855131">
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    <name><![CDATA[Trish]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 02 17:47:59 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kevin Brockmeier's &quot;The Truth About Celia&quot; contains within it <em>The Truth About Celia</em>, a collection of stories by stricken father Christopher Brooks. 7-year-old Celia vanished on March 15, 1997 -- one moment she was playing in the yard, and the next she was gone. No trace, no clues, no resol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9855131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29297583">
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    <name><![CDATA[Julian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[North Bergen, NJ]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 05 06:20:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 12 17:51:49 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully painful, this book is about a 7-year-old girl going missing and, rather than the search for her, the impact of her disappearance on her parents, especially her father, and the small town they live in. Not a novel, it's an emotionally connected collection of short stories (one of which do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29297583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77658022">
    <user id="2940489">
    <name><![CDATA[Jill]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Milwaukee, WI]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 13 10:41:57 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 13 10:43:39 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is by far Kevin's best book. With his trademark luscious prose, he explores the facets of grief within the mind of a father who has lost a daughter; fittingly, the facets include tales taking place in strange worlds (the father is an author of fantasy fiction). Sad and yet entirely satisfying.]]></body>
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    <review id="58690950">
    <user id="189647">
    <name><![CDATA[Candice]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can only imagine what it would be like to lose a child.  And the author does imagine this in many ways.  Seven-year-old Celia disappears one day and cannot be found.  Her father is devastated and uses his talents as a writer of science fiction and fantasy to imagine what may have happened.  He ima...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58690950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60881397">
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    <name><![CDATA[Katie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 23 21:07:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was ok, but it was such a diiferent experience than Brief History of the Dead, I guess that I wanted another Brief History of the Dead.]]></body>
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    <review id="43216698">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Still reading this one - very interesting structure - keeps you on your toes]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43216698]]></url>
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    <review id="22311538">
    <user id="68300">
    <name><![CDATA[Rebecca]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cambridge, MA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were some Baxteresque moments. It was mostly good but I wanted to give it four stars. It is a novel-- or only good, maybe, as a novel and not as short stories. <br/><br/>Something else that I forgot.....<br/><br/><br/>I'll read his other stuffs. This one had two or three really great chap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22311538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25743790">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lori]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my opinion, this is a true literary masterpiece.  Brockmeier uses first, second and third person narrative, past, present and future tense, and even uses non-human points of view, all in the same book!  This book is the fictional author's means to try to deal with the disappearance of his young d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25743790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20364747">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 21 04:14:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sad but beautiful book.  A seven-year-old girl simply disappears one day while her father Christopher shows their historic house to visitors.  Christopher, a sf/f writer, attempts to deal with Celia's disappearance in the only way he can, by writing, yet grows more and more distant towards his wif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20364747">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74907742">
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    <name><![CDATA[A.]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Carrboro, NC]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Heartbreaking.]]></body>
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    <review id="4136309">
    <user id="214468">
    <name><![CDATA[Audrey]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Murray, KY]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[it seems that this is a book people have mixed emotions about. i really enjoy novels that feature magic realism, so any type of fantastical element usually gets a thumbs up from me. the topic is a common one, but i think brockmeier handles it in an uncommon way, which i enjoyed. ]]></body>
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    <review id="41603733">
    <user id="1276186">
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written this is a powerfully sad story of grief experienced by the parents of a child who disappears.  I'm a fan of Brockmeier's writing style but found I had to take breaks from reading this book because of the nature of the story and its superb telling.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this twice by accident and it was just as absorbing if not more the second time. after a child disappears the world is told through her grief stricken father's eyes while he tried to imagine her fate. Fantastically heartbreaking.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure I would like this as much on a reread, but it was an interesting exercise -- the story of a girl's disappearance told from many perspectives, with many outcomes. I especially liked the more fantastical ones.]]></body>
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