I bought this book after seeing a trailer for the upcoming movie, which is probably a terrible reason to buy a book. Unfortunately, the short 2 minute trailer was far more compelling than the book. Two parallel stories are being told in the novel: that of Glenn and Annie and their disintegrating marriage and that of Arthur Parkinson, a high school student suffering through his own family's dissolution. Though Arthur and Annie are tied together as former child and babysitter, I didn't feel the connection was strong enough to link the two together. They seemed like two separate stories instead of the intertwining one that the author has to stretch to create. At the height of the story, Glenn and Annie's daughter goes missing and the two are left reeling during the aftermath, while Arthur is left to pick up the pieces in his own family and figure out how to live his new life.