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Me, the Missing, and the Dead

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Me: Lucas Swain--I'm nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed.

The Missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares except me. It's enough to drive you crazy.

The Dead: That's Violet . . . in the urn. Speaking of crazy--I know she's trying to tell m...more

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Published April 1st 2008 by HarperTeen (first published January 3rd 2007)

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Jan 24, 2012 Watermelon Daisy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

FIRST IMPRESSION:
Jenny Valentine is one of those authors who will always be a "three star" author to me. She has this weird sense of bizarre logic which I can't help loving, but she can't fool me into thinking any of her stories could be real. The covers of her books are always pretty. Just saying.

WRITING STYLE:
I quite like Lucas's thoughts. Although there were a zillion commas missing, and though people suppose boys to speak in a snappy way, Lucas doesn't seem like the snappy type. He's too nic...more

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Jan 16, 2009 Jamie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 14-16, death-and-dying, family, mystery, fast-paced, great-ending

There's a little bit of suspension of disbelief (LOTS of coincidences)to totally enjoy this book, but enjoy it you should. It reads fast, but unfolds slowly, and has a highly satisfactory ending that shouldn't come as a surprise, but did to me.

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Mar 01, 2009 Carrie rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is an excellent YA novel, the story of fifteen-year old Lucas who ends up being the custodian of an old woman’s ashes (they were left behind in a taxi dispatch office for something like five years, and he felt guilty - or her ghost let him - so he brought her home). As he investigate the life of the dead woman, Violet Park (that would be the dead), he learns more about his father who walked away from him and his family a number of years before (that would be the missing). The story of him s...more

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Feb 27, 2009 Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, young-adult

Summary: 16-year-old Lucas finds an old lady in an urn, who just so happens to have some connection to his missing dad. If he can find out who the dead lady was, can he find his dad?

Review: From the brief description of this on Amazon, I wasn’t interested. It sounded like a ghost story, and I don’t do ghost stories. Or scary movies, for that matter. I’ve been known to sleep with the light on after a particularly creepy episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for Pete’s sake.

But this book was a fina...more

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Feb 12, 2009 Lucy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: teen, 2009

Lucas Swain is almost sixteen years old, and his dad has been missing for five years when he meets Violet Park on a shelf at a cab office. Thing is, Violet Park is more than a little bit dead and living in an urn at the time.

But Lucas knows that she has something to tell him. Even though she's no longer among the living.

As Lucas tries to unearth the truth about Violet Park and what she wants from him, he realizes that there may have been a connection between Violet Park and his missing father. T...more Lucas Swain is almost sixteen years old, and his dad has been missing for five years when he meets Violet Park on a shelf at a cab office. Thing is, Violet Park is more than a little bit dead and living in an urn at the time.

But Lucas knows that she has something to tell him. Even though she's no longer among the living.

As Lucas tries to unearth the truth about Violet Park and what she wants from him, he realizes that there may have been a connection between Violet Park and his missing father. The more he digs, the more he begins to learn truths about the dad he's always idolized--truths he's not sure he ever wanted to know.

I love this book. It doesn't sound like much from the description, and when you hold it in your hand, a slim little volume, you won't believe that it can worm its way into your heart and make you care, but it can, and it will. In a few short pages you'll get to know Lucas. You'll hear his voice in your head, honest and contempletive and real and true, and you'll want to keep talking to him.

Because like Violet, the fact that Lucas isn't real won't stop you from getting to know him--or from caring about him.

There are lines in this book that ring so honest and true that they break your heart even as you know they're true.

"It occurs to me that all most people do when they grow up is fix on something impossible and then hunger after it...And the thing about everyone else in my family is that we are so busy being miserable all the time about impossible stuff that being miserable has started to become normal and strangely comforting.

I mean, how much would we actually like it if Dad showed up tomorrow and became part of the family again?

Wouldn't it make everyone a bit awkward?

It would be like having a stranger in the house, like a new lodger.

It would be really weird.

At some point, without anybody noticing, the impossible object of desire must turn into the last thing on Earth you want to happen."

And let me just add in one last thing--just when you think this book couldn't possibly get any better, that the ache of goodness and honest writing and characters you've grown to love in such a few short pages couldn't swell any larger in your heart--just wait for the last chapter. Just wait for it. Because it's perfect.(less)

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Jan 27, 2009 West Region, added it

Shelves: highschool, mystery, ya, humor

Me, the Missing, and the Dead
Jenny Valentine

"It's the not knowing that's hard."

For Lucas, a sixteen year old Londoner, his father's sudden
disappearance has been haunting at him -- and moreso now that he's found Violet. Violet Park was last a little old lady. Now she's ashes in an urn, found in a taxicab company's waiting room, on a shelf, alone.

Lucas brings her home (correction: steals her) because she's speaking to him and he can't stand not to make friends with her. His main reason "A dead old...more

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Jan 01, 2009 Eva Mitnick rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

In a nutshell – London teenager Lucas Swain bonds emotionally with the cremated remains of an old famous pianist named Violet, causing him to come to a greater understanding not just of old people, but also of himself, his family, and his long-vanished dad. Oh, and Lucas gets quite a great girlfriend as well.

This is an unusual premise but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there was no hint of cloying quirkiness about this book. Young Lucas knows that communing with a dead old lady’s as...more In a nutshell – London teenager Lucas Swain bonds emotionally with the cremated remains of an old famous pianist named Violet, causing him to come to a greater understanding not just of old people, but also of himself, his family, and his long-vanished dad. Oh, and Lucas gets quite a great girlfriend as well.

This is an unusual premise but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there was no hint of cloying quirkiness about this book. Young Lucas knows that communing with a dead old lady’s ashes is odd, but he doesn’t work the weirdness, much less anguish over it – he just gets on with his life, which at this stage means coming to terms with his damaged family and his own feelings about it.

The tone is matter-of-fact and not quite breezy, just right for all the bits involving slightly eccentric folks such as Lucas’ grandma Pansy and grandpa Norman. They are warm, strange, and wonderfully human – totally believable in other words. Lucas’ affection for these people shines forth and warms up the story.

Less successful is the portrayal of Lucas’ mother. She’s been a wreck since her husband left without a word five years ago – but it’s hard to see why. We get glimpses of her diary, we hear anecdotes from Lucas’ parents’ best friend Bob, and we even hear a bit from the woman herself – but it’s all confusing and contradictory. I didn’t understand her at all, although Lucas seems to come to terms with her eventually. Lucas himself is obviously a good person at heart, even if he occasionally comes across as a jerk (especially to his mom, naturally). He listens to people and is able to question his own feelings and actions – and even change!- as a result (a trait that is surprisingly rare). The fact that he befriends the ashes of an old lady demonstrates that this is one worthwhile teenage boy.

Although the emotional issues permeating Lucas’ family aren’t particularly successfully explored, the warmth and understated weirdness of this book make it definitely worth a read.

Grade 7 - 10
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Apr 08, 2013 Heather Aldaine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-booklist, young-adult

I’ve long believed that men and women react differently outwardly, but inside we feel the same pain. Having gone through a situation resembling Lucas’s, I felt his pain very keenly. His way of holding onto his father long after the disappearance seemed alien to me, and yet his thoughts and reasons for acting that way might have come straight from my mind. Possibly this has something to do with the author being female, but I doubt men on the literary awards panels would have let this book pass re...more

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Feb 14, 2011 REbecca Darling is currently reading it

So I'm currently reading this book. I'm about 50 pages in, and it's pretty good so far. This guy, Lucas Swain "meets" and old lady at a cab place. She's dead. Yep. And she's cremated in an urn who was left behind by somebody. Lucas wants to take the urn home because he feels like he's communicating with the old lady inside, Violet Park. I don't really understand how he believes he's talking to her. There wasn't really anything in the book about that so far? Well anyway. Lucas' dad is gone. He do...more

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Nov 24, 2009 Nina Rosas added it

Shelves: english-1-honors

My first reaction in the begining of this book was that it was going to be an awkward book and yet it got my attention right away.What got my attention was the plot of this book and how i thought it was going to play out. By the middle of the story when the main character starts to learn about this dead lady my reaction was that the main character had to be crazy and that somehow this was going to lead him to his missing dad. i was very confused though on how that might play out. whether his fat...more

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Oct 04, 2009 Julie H. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

Me, the Missing, and the Dead is the story of 17-year old Lucas Swain who becomes mesmerized by an urn abandoned in the Appolo Cab offices in London. The threads of this elderly woman's life and death, the unresolved disappearance of Lucas' father five years ago, and the coming of age sorts of stuff that a bright but undirected 17-year old faces are interwoven with grace, humor, and subtlety.

After involving his grandmother, Pansy, in convincing the cab company's owner (who bears a striking rese...more Me, the Missing, and the Dead is the story of 17-year old Lucas Swain who becomes mesmerized by an urn abandoned in the Appolo Cab offices in London. The threads of this elderly woman's life and death, the unresolved disappearance of Lucas' father five years ago, and the coming of age sorts of stuff that a bright but undirected 17-year old faces are interwoven with grace, humor, and subtlety.

After involving his grandmother, Pansy, in convincing the cab company's owner (who bears a striking resemblance to Tony Soprano) to surrender the urn to what he thinks is the family of the departed, the urn and its occupant take up residence on Lucas' grandmother's mantel. In an entirely non-creepy way Lucas senses the following from her: "She was warm (heating on constantly) and she liked the decor (overcrowded and a lot of crochet) and nobody was smoking or swearing. She wanted a bit of music on. Rachmaninov's Fourth (which, by the way, I'd never heard of, I swear; but Norman [Lucas' grandfather:] had it on vinyl and we cranked it up. Violet [the deceased woman whose ashes are in the urn:] knew it like the back of her hand, and she went all tingly, which was pretty amazing). Maybe sheltered accommodation in Kentish Town wasn't her first choice for eternal idyll, but it was a step up from Apollo Cars and Violet wanted us to know she was grateful" (p. 60).

What's most deceptive here, is that this witty book includes some seriously dark stuff. Lucas is perceptive in a fashion that is believable for a 17-year old boy--esp. given the "assistance" provided by his mother's diary, unfettered and honest access to his grandparents who are likewise grieving the unresolved disappearance of their son, and his interactions with his long-lost journalist father's best friend, Bob.

On a side note, I am always amused when books originally published for one market are retitled for distribution to the American market. Published first in Britain as Finding Violet Park, this book was released in America under the title you see above (i.e., Me, the Missing, and the Dead. To my mind, the American title is a fuller reflection of the interrelationships of the seemingly disparate threads, but I truly would have been no less likely to pick it up and peruse the jacket under its original title. (No great insights to offer here, am just noting this publishing quirk.)

The book is well-written and, as compared with other YA fiction I've read I'm quite interested to see that Lucas clearly smokes weed, is sexually active (or at least beginning to explore the field), and these little insights are simply tossed in and do not become the Central Drama that they so often are in YA fiction. It makes him a much more interesting--as in layered--young man and certainly lends more depth to the book and the characterization provided for each of its many primary and secondary characters.

Me, the Missing, and the Dead is first and foremost about overcoming loss and deciding whether or not the survivors (or walking wounded in the case of Lucas' nuclear family) are going to allow it to define them forever. The resolution, such as it is, is great and I don't want to spoil anything here. This is a fun afternoon read, and I heartily recommend it. (less)

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Apr 23, 2009 Doug Beatty rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: teen

Me: Is Lucas Swain, who is a strange, grim character that wears his fathers clothes, spends time reading his mother’s diary, and becomes fascinated with the life of Violet Park, who he finds in an urn at a cab company when he goes there to get a ride home one evening. Violet is an old lady who starts to fascinate him, and he really feels that she doesn’t want her to be left at the cab company and devises a plan with her grandmother Pansy to convince the owner to let Violet come home with her. La...more Me: Is Lucas Swain, who is a strange, grim character that wears his fathers clothes, spends time reading his mother’s diary, and becomes fascinated with the life of Violet Park, who he finds in an urn at a cab company when he goes there to get a ride home one evening. Violet is an old lady who starts to fascinate him, and he really feels that she doesn’t want her to be left at the cab company and devises a plan with her grandmother Pansy to convince the owner to let Violet come home with her. Later he discovers that Norman, his grandfather, (who is not always lucid after several strokes) seems to know who Violet is. His father has been missing for five years and his car was found in a field and no one has ever solved the mystery. The mother seems to feel like her life was wasted and she is stuck raising three kids and one of them haunts her by looking and dressing like the vanished father. As Lucas finds out more about Violet he discovers that she was a pianist from Tasmania and that she lived quite nearby and that her father actually knew her and in fact might have had an affair with her, letting her buy him clothing and other gifts, in essence just using her. But later in life it seems that he also was planning on writing her life story. Lucas begins to see the truth about his father and not the candy coated portrait that he painted of him. One day Lucas’s mother decides to finally get rid of all of the fathers stuff and in doing so, Lucas uncovers a cassette tape that was an interview between Violet and him and in the interview Violet asks Lucas’s father to help her die. The tape ends before there is an answer. Lucas goes to his fathers friend Bob to try and find the truth and Bob was convinced that Pete did indeed help her die and then was left an incredible amount of money in a will. The will said the money went to Violets son Orlando but Lucas knows that Orlando was really made up and that his father is living high on the hog somewhere on Violets money. He scatters Violets ashes and sends the urn to his father, noting that his father is really now dead to him.

This is a quirky novel and I am not sure if teens would like it or not. I liked the character of Lucas and I liked his discovery and I really liked the mystery surrounding his father and the relationship he had with Violet. It really kept me reading. And it is not a long book and it has a great title and cover and I think teens will pick it up. It does have a little bit of a British lilt to it but I think that would be ok. Lucas really grows and changes throughout the novel and really learns a lot about his own family, his mother and father and about himself. The urn with Violet is a nice touch and makes the story original and unusual and unlike anything I had read before. I am glad there was a solution to the mystery and that it was not one of those open ended books that leave you hanging, wondering what happened to the father. Even though Violet and Pete are not actually in the story, they also make good characters and they have an interesting story and relationship as well, and it keeps the plot moving.
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Nov 11, 2011 Angelina rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

This novel gets four stars for many reasons, but at the top of the list is that it is a short novel. This makes it an easier sell to reluctant readers, especially guys. Guys are my second top reason for giving four stars. This book is written from a "guy" perspective in a voice that resonates with how boys/men think and communicate.

Women, and maybe even many men, often forget that the "real" male and the fictional male are often worlds apart. Novels abound with stereotypes of men both positive a...more

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Apr 12, 2011 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Rachel by: Margo

Shelves: novels, addictive-ya-shit

I recently got this in the mail from a friend who shares my weird junkie-like addiction to young adult literature. As long as it's well-written (and sometimes even if it's not), I'll rip through a good YA book. Sometimes I think authors of "adult" novels try too hard to be "arty" or "serious" and they forget that half the point is to write a good story. YA authors can't do that, because no one would buy their books. Sometimes, though, the voice of the main character is a bit too contrived, a bit...more

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Jan 10, 2013 Karin rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: borrowed-from-the-library, young-adult-fiction, realistic, families, parents, parenting, father-son-relationships, fathers, absent-parents, mystery, teen-sleuths, relationships, relationship-problems, ghosts-and-spirits, quirky, funny, self-discovery, coming-of-age

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Dec 17, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sometimes a person just has to solve the mystery. Why is there a cremation urn in the taxi stand? Whose is it? Who is the woman whose remains are in there? What does this have to do with me?
Lucas has a lot of questions. The first and most important is how he is going to deal with his father's disappearance. Why did dad leave? What did the family do to deserve this? Maybe he's dead? Secondly, how to rescue the woman in the urn. Obviously dead, she shouldn't have to live on the shelf in a stinky,...more

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Oct 04, 2010 Nina rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This has been a book on my tbr list for a while now and therefore I decided to borrow it at the library. I thought it would be a good mystery story with an unique twist. I’m sorry to let you know, that this was not my cup of tea. And I really like tea!

The thing I didn’t like was that I didn’t get to know Lucas character at all. I know he is 16, likes to make lists, has a older sister, a younger brother and a mother who wishes she could rewind time. He also misses his father a lot and wearing his...more

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Feb 24, 2009 Steph Su rated it 3 of 5 stars

One night, 15-year-old Lucas Swain enters a taxicab company office and is immediately attracted to a strange urn sitting on the shelf. He learns that it contains the ashes of one Violet Park, a well-known pianist who lived in the neighborhood, and that the urn was left in the backseat of a taxi years ago. Lucas doesn't understand exactly why Violet called out to him from the dead, but he feels certain that it has something to do with his father's disappearance five years ago. Peter Swain, lifeti...more

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Jul 05, 2011 Melissa rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery

Lucas Swain is a teenage boy living in London with his older sister, younger brother, and mother. His father Pete mysteriously disappeared when he was eleven (five years ago) and Lucas still clings to his memory, picturing his missing father as a perfect person frozen in time, unable to return to his own family for a noble, yet still more secret, reason. Lucas soon meets Violet, or rather, her ashes, in a cab office and he suddenly feels that he must help her. The rescue is the simple part, but...more

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Sep 30, 2008 Heather rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult-books-i-would-recommend, 2008

Amazingly good and enjoyable. 16-year-old Lucas goes to a cab station one night and finds the urn of a woman named Violet, abandoned in a cab several years ago. The next day, he realizes that he needs to get that urn and do something for Violet. He enlists his grandmother's help to claim the urn, and begins a journey that leads him to discover not only who Violet was, but why his own father disappeared 5 years ago. I loved it.

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Apr 03, 2008 Nick rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult-fiction

This novel is on the narrow edge between realistic fiction and a ghost story. The result is a fascinating tale of a teenaged boy, his missing father, and what may or may not be the ghost of a woman whose ashes were left in the office of a taxi company.
It reminds me of the Terry Pratchett "Johnny" novels, but with less slapstick, possibly because much of the story is very British and has bits of dry English humor.

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Mar 24, 2012 Stevecrandell rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: grades-9-and-up, mystery, coping-with-loss

There are a lot of coincidences to accept here, propped up with a teen-friendly dose of magic realism. There are also a lot of loose ends – family tensions, romance, and all sorts of lives crumbling apart. But most important, there’s a fun story that steamrolls through all the plot debris.

The setting is modern London. Lucas Swain is 15, still holding out hope for the return of his father, who disappeared five years ago. Lucas’ hopes get a jolt when he discovers an abandoned funeral urn. The wom...more

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May 30, 2011 Tammy K. rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult-fiction

Strange little book. I chose to listen to the audio format. There were times that I wondered if I should continue to listen or not. I can't say if I liked the ending or not maybe in time I will find it appropriate one for such a strange book.
What makes this book strange? Its told to use in first person by 15 year old boy who lives in england. Having had his father(a reporter)gone missing he became the man of the house at age ten. His family such as it is are rather a pitiful bunch.
The story is...more

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Dec 18, 2008 Leah rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a short, funny, quirky book that is simultaneously a powerful coming-of-age story. Lucas walks into a cab office one morning and finds himself drawn to an urn on the shelf, which contains the ashes of a dead woman and was found abandoned in a cab a year ago... about the time Lucas's father disappeared. The book then proceeds to meander along with descriptions of Lucas's family, friends, history, and viewpoints, with the plot progressing in little jumps along the way -- something I normal...more

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Nov 21, 2010 Trish Willis added it · review of another edition

Me, the Missing, and the Dead, by Jenny Valentine turned out to be a sweet book about a boy and his family, whose father has abandoned them a few years ago. The cover intrigued me because of the frame the boy is holding in front of his body. The frame is empty, but instead of seeing the boy in the frame, we see the wall behind him. His body is missing. As it turns out, it is not him that is missing, but his dad. But the empty frame might be the huge gaping hole his father left in him, when he le...more

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Nov 04, 2010 Michele Velthuizen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Interest level: 8th +
Reading level: medium
Genre: Trial by Fire, mystery, fathers and sons, families, assisted suicide

When Lucas walks into a cab station and spots an urn with the ashes of a stranger called Violet Park - unclaimed for months by a passenger who left it in a cab - he can't stop thinking about who Violet was and why she ended up forgotten and forlorn on a shelf in a cab office. With the help of his grandmother, Lucas decides to steal the urn and find out what exactly happened to Vio...more

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Jul 26, 2012 Johanna rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: just-didn-t-like-it, nothing-really-happened, couldn-t-connect-with

I really wanted to like this book. Well it's not like I ever want to read books I don't enjoy, but you get the point. I thought it sounded interesting when I read about it, but it didn't live up to my expectations.

My main problem with the book was the main character. He was almost sixteen, but everything he said or did in the book made it seem like he was around ten years old. I went through the whole book seeing him as a little kid, which made me feel really uncomfortable when he was drinking...more

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May 09, 2009 Terry rated it 4 of 5 stars

For some reason, after reading the book jacket, I thought this book was going to be for a slightly younger audience than it was actually intended for (high school) and that it was going to be a little more supernatural (it isn't). The publisher's marketing worked to get me to read the book, but I ended up enjoying it for completely different reasons than I thought I was going to. The story is realistic fiction. It's about trying to figure out what happened to the main character's father, who dis...more

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Sep 15, 2011 Jean rated it 4 of 5 stars

Enjoyable story of teenager Lucas who encounters an urn with the ashes of an old lady that seems to speak to him.

Loved this observation of a library in a low income neighborhood. "Mostly it’s full of people who don’t have anywhere better to go, so nobody who works there gives anyone too hard a time. They speak to you like you’re as good as the next person, whoever you are. If you think about it, having nowhere good to go is just about the (worst) feeling there is. I’m lucky because I’ve got my...more

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Apr 03, 2009 Kathy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Lucas Swain walks into the cab office because he is too tired to walk home. He's got money that his sister, Mercy, accidently left in his coat and he plans on using it. Everyone was staring at him. He looked away and then he saw her - the urn, I mean, Violet Park, she was in the urn. He didn't know her name then. But she was calling to him, compelling him to take her home. So he did, eventually.

"The main thing about my mom is that she's sad." (42) Lucas' dad, Pete, disappeared five years ago, wh...more

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God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting or enjoying things. It doesn't matter what you're talking about - war, work, marriage, democracy, love, it all fails because everybody gives up trying after a while, we can't help ourselves. And don't ask me to solve it because I am the worst. I'd escape tomorrow if I could, from every single thing I've always wanted.” — 8 people liked it

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