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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332348.The_Year_of_Fog?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Year of Fog" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173822763m/332348.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332348.The_Year_of_Fog?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Year of Fog</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/84728.Michelle_Richmond">Michelle Richmond</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20612053?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/> <br/>"There is a girl, her name is Emma, she is walking on the beach. I look away. Seconds pass. I look back, and she is gone. I keep thinking about the seconds, the ever-expanding circle. How I set this chain of events in motion. How I must find some way to make amends." <br/> <br/> <br/> The Year of Fog is the the story of Abby Mason, a 32-year-old photographer who is about to be married. While Jake, her fiancee, is away visiting a friend, Abby takes his 6-year-old daughter, Emma, to the beach... and Emma disappears. This riveting novel follows Abby's desperate search to find out what happened to Emma, and repair the devastation that has torn her family's life apart. <br/> <br/>Michelle Richmond is a spellbinding writer who introspectively explores the facets of human memory in this heartbreaking novel. Desperate to recapture the moment she lost Emma, Abby is frantic to find some morsel of a clue or speck of a memory from that foggy day on the beach that will help her uncover Emma's fate. She wanders the streets and beaches of San Fransisco, she searches the face of every child. Similarly, her camera, behind which Abby used to find her sanity and peace, becomes insufficient at recapturing (or offering clues about) those most precious, essential, life-changing seconds in time. <br/> <br/>I picked this book up on a whim at Target a couple of weeks ago simply because of the quote on the front of the book, "Highly recommended [for fans of:] authors like Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard." And what a pleasure it is to find a new author to devour! The structure of this book is wonderfully readable. The short chapters (which I love) contain just the right mix of raw emotion and new developments to propel the story forward. Many recent evenings I have spent more hours than I had intended reading "just a little bit more" as I, too, became desperate to know the fate of little Emma. I highly recommend this book to everybody (except worried, overprotective mothers)! Michelle Richmond has told a spectacular story! <br/> <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/778088?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>