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  <title><![CDATA[We Disappear]]></title>
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  <default-description>The body of a teenage boy is discovered in a Kansas field. The murder haunts Donna-a recent widow battling cancer-calling forth troubling details from long-suppressed memories of her past. Hoping to discover more about &quot;disappeared&quot; people, she turns to her son, Scott, who is fighting demons of his own. Addicted to methamphetamines and sleeping pills, Scott is barely holding on- though the chance to help his mother in her strange and desperate search holds out a slim promise of some small salvation.

But what he finds is a boy named Otis handcuffed in a secret basement room, and the questions that arise seem too disturbing even to contemplate. With his mother's health rapidly deteriorating, he must surrender to his own obsession, and unravel Otis's unsettling connections to other missing teens . . . and, ultimately, to Scott himself.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2008</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Scott Heim]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my view, Scott Heim's three novels form a triptych. MYSTERIOUS SKIN, IN AWE and WE DISAPPEAR are not connected, but they are variations on a theme. Each book involves a search, and the searchers are outcast souls whose kinship, through blood or experience, is ghostly. If you set the characters of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14700862">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As posted in [http://www.amazon.com]:<br/><br/>*We Disappear* is a haunting novel about a mother and her grown son poring over missing children cases. <br/><br/>A young boy has gone missing, which Scott gets a call from his mother, Donna, asking him to come down to Kansas from Manhattan to solve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19488803">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 07 13:26:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 07 13:39:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love Scott Heim's style of writing: the depth and verisimilitude of his characters, and how his pacing and momentum kept me so engulfed in this book that I read it pretty much in one sitting. You can feel how personal this story is to Scott, not just by naming the characters after himself and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58770246">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 09 05:14:24 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 09 05:27:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read &quot;Mysterious Skin&quot; possibly when I was still in high school and really liked it.  It was a fresh and different take on gay men's fiction (amidst a lot of boring coming out stories) and it was hard hitting and emotional and interesting.<br/><br/>&quot;We Disappear&quot; is Heim's fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21914779">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story of a mother and son is one of those &quot;is it or isn't it?&quot; stories of crypto-autobiography, in which the author names the main character after himself and inserts certain factual elements of his life, but leaves readers scratching their heads over what elements of the story are tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18722932">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Apr 21 23:04:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So much dies with people when their bodies cease to live.  Memories.  Secrets.  Desires.  A monumental moment in one's life can over time whittle away, as witnesses move away, forget, or die, as one grows old and replaces details as the years go by.  The memories of countless lives disappear without...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11086026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had higher hopes for this one too, based on what a phenomenal film &quot;Mysterious Skin&quot; was. And this one had the same surreal and depressing Kansas vibe to it. It starts out with an interesting enough premise. And was getting mildly intriguing and twisted. But then it just stalls and conti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18666814">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66248185">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really appreciated Mysterious Skin (the movie) so I borrowed We Disappear from the library.  It's an easy read, and at times I was engaged and interested, and he does a reasonable job with describing various sorts of addictions (running the gamut of packrat to crystal meth addict), but...  Otherwi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66248185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65178054">
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    <body><![CDATA[A very different book...a little confusing but interesting. It is no Mysterious Skin...but i liked the fact that it challenged me to a level that I hadnt been for a while. I think that the ending is up to the reader. There are several things that you think but I think it is an individual thing.]]></body>
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    <review id="30986757">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;... sleepy as a breather of poppies&quot;, &quot;... the sounds of geese: the doorhinge creak of their throats&quot;, &quot;... her backyard garden with its doomed rosebushes and militant weeds&quot;, &quot;... lipstick so thickly red it seemed she'd kissed ketchup&quot;.  Scott Heim's beautif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30986757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20155505">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Admittedly not the easiest read, because of the subject matter for me.  However, I found myself engrossed completely, and finished it quickly.   It's the story of a mother, dying from cancer, and her drug-addicted son, who returns home to Kansas from NYC, to care for her.  While caring for her, he b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20155505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76076454">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in about three sittings, about a year ago.  Scott Heim is also the author of &quot;Mysterious Skin,&quot; which was a book I couldn't get out of my head for months after I read it.  The same goes for &quot;We Disappear.&quot; Sad and strange and heartbreaking.]]></body>
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    <review id="55934463">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This author definitely has a distinctive voice.  Although I haven't read Mysterious Skin yet, the movie was one of my favorites of all time, and I know it closely parallels the book.  I look forward to more novels from him.]]></body>
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    <review id="39054214">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stark but fertile, like the Midwest in winter. (Ha! I'm so pithy!) Seriously, a great and complex novel about coming home, memory, facing demons, and the imperfection of human relationships.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is something so elusive and mysterious about people disappearing. Was it suicide? Were they kidnapped? Are they still alive? In this (dare I say meta?) novel the protagonist returns home to Kansas to take care of his dying mother who happens to be obsessed with disappearances. Both reader and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22966229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59252381">
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    <body><![CDATA[Dark, weird, heartrending:  A terminally ill mother and her meth-addicted son reconnect though their obsession with a missing boy.  This absolutely deserved the Lambda Literary Award it received.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't bother. A boring, convoluted mystery with an ending that made no sense. This is why I generally tend to stay away from mysteries.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a messy sense of a plot in this. Yes, it's there, and I believe Heim thought hard about it, but that doesn't save it from appearing very, very scattered. Despite this, We Disappear is an enjoyable read, quick and easy, despite the fact it appears Heim wasn't entirely sure where he wanted to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52021041">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 30 10:23:42 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A few pages into We Disappear, I thought to myself, &quot;this is definitely Scott Heim.&quot;  That's a good thing.  As with his other two novels, I found bits of myself in this book, which served to make me feel really connected to his writing.  I waited years for Heim to put something else out, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18887217">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jun 20 08:32:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scott Heim also wrote &quot;Mysterious Skin,&quot; which didn't surprise me as this novel is equally cinematic.  The writing is beautifully vivid and the story haunting.  The use of kidnapping as a metaphor for both loss and the complex nature of love was thought provoking, if a bit overdone.  I was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24978526">more...</a>]]></body>
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