01964cam a2200325 i 4500 560314130 TxGeo 20220609120000.0 220531s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781609457624 trade pbk. 1609457625 trade pbk. TxGeo rda eng ita de Gregorio, Concita. The missing word / Concita De Gregorio ; translated by Clarissa Botsford. New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2022. 131 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Irina’s life with her husband and her twin daughters is orderly. An Italian living in Switzerland, she works as a lawyer. One day, something breaks. The marriage ends without apparent trauma, but on a weekend seemingly like any other, the girls’ father takes Alessia and Livia away with him. They disappear. A few days later the man takes his own life. Of the girls, there is no trace. Concita De Gregorio takes the unadorned, terrible facts of this true story and embodies the protagonist’s voice. In a narrative that is fast and urgent, she unravels these traumatic events to tell the story of a mother bereft of her children – a state for which there is no word. The Missing Word delves deep into Irina’s thoughts and memories as she grasps at the shreds of truth and, piece by piece, stitches her life back together. 20220624. In English, translated from the Italian. Family life Fiction. Mothers Fiction. Psychological fiction. Italian language materials Translations into English. Botsford, Clarissa. QS5