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  <read_at>Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Largely absent from the national stage, Tim Gautreaux continues to be one of the most underrated novelists of our day, and The Missing finds him firing on all cylinders. Set in the post-WWI South along the Mississippi River, largely in New Orleans and around Baton Rouge, Gautreaux's riverboat tale of a lost child and a man's quest to find her and come to terms with his own lost childhood is masterful in its pacing and appreciation for life on the Mississippi River.<br/><br/>I'm prejudiced against endings where everyone seems to get what they deserve, and the ending of The Missing comes close to wrapping up too neatly. Thankfully it manages to paddle its way out of that current before catching ground, rounding out what will probably be one of the better books I will read this year.]]></body>
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