It's true, The Missing is Heavy Feather Review, and it's both humbling and wonderful. Kind of emotional too. You can check out the full review here and get a longer sneak preview below. Cool? Indeed.
"There’s a strange and beautiful gleam of hope that comes through this structure of lost conversation. What if there was a magical healing plane or a way of maneuvering through the universe where two people are so connected that they find a way to dialogue through chapters, by the internal stories they tell themselves in order to understand the things that they no longer have the strength to speak to each other?
To do all of this, the book boldly leans into the internal landscape. Dramatic scene is almost always subordinate to mental processing. One peak example of this is a moment where Gabriel takes Hannah to the hospital. Through the entire scene, the narrative camera stays on Gabriel’s mind rather than the cinematic perspective often seen in current fiction. This structure leads to an intense empathy for the character’s status as well as a matching mental fatigue. Just as the experience is wearing on the character, we are drawn in so close that we can also feel the strain. It becomes a palpable experience with us becoming these characters, their close confidant, or perhaps their counselor."