TY  - BOOK
AU  - McMorris,Kristina
TI  - The Edge of Lost
SN  - 9780758281180 (paperback)
AV  - PS3613.C585453 E34 2015b
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Kensington Books
KW  - United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California
KW  - fast
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - FICTION / Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Inmate guards
KW  - Missing children
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
KW  - California
KW  - Alcatraz Island
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes discussion questions
N2  - On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guard's only daughter--one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island--has gone missing. Tending the warden's greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits anxiously. Only he knows the truth about the little girl's whereabouts, and that both of their lives depend on the search's outcome.  Almost two decades earlier and thousands of miles away, a young boy named Shanley Keagan ekes out a living as an aspiring vaudevillian in Dublin pubs. Talented and shrewd, Shan dreams of shedding his dingy existence and finding his real father in America. The chance finally comes to cross the Atlantic, but when tragedy strikes, Shan must summon all his ingenuity to forge a new life in a volatile and foreign world.  Skillfully weaving these two stories, Kristina McMorris delivers a compelling novel that moves from Ireland to New York to San Francisco Bay. As her finely crafted characters discover the true nature of loyalty, sacrifice, and betrayal, they are forced to confront the lies we tell--and believe--in order to survive
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