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Where Things Come Back

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Where Things Come Back

In the remarkable, bizarre, and heart-wrenching summer before Cullen Witter’s senior year of high school, everything he thinks he understands about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town vanishes. His cousin overdoses; his town becomes absurdly obsessed with the alleged reappearance of an extinct woodpecker; and most troubling of all, his sensitive, gifted fifteen-year-old brother, Gabriel, suddenly and inexplicably disappears.

As Cullen navigates a summer of finding and losing love, holding his fragile family together, and muddling his way into adulthood, a young, disillusioned missionary in Africa searches for meaning wherever he can find it. Through masterful plotting, these two stories are brought face-to-face in a surprising and harrowing climax that is tinged with melancholy and regret, comedy and absurdity, and above all, hope.

Where Things Come Back
by John Corey Whaley

  • Publication Date: July 24, 2012
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
  • ISBN-10: 1442413344
  • ISBN-13: 9781442413344