Alexander, Kirsten 1964- creator author. text Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. nyu 2020 First Grand Central trade paperback edition. monographic eng

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x, 350 pages ; 21 cm "In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not to give in to despair. Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found in the company of a tramp. But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. And when Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports' own friends, take sides. As the tramp's kidnapping trial begins, and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they'd ever dreamed"-- adult Kirsten Alexander. Includes Reading Group Guide (pages 341-350). "Originally published as a Bantam trade paperback entitled Half-Moon Lake in 2019"--Title page verso. n-us-la Missing children Fiction Mistaken identity Fiction Kidnapping Fiction Tramps Fiction Unmarried mothers Fiction Parent and child Fiction Custody of children Fiction Custody of children Kidnapping Missing children Mistaken identity Parent and child Tramps Unmarried mothers Missing children Fiction Identity Fiction Kidnapping Fiction Tramps Fiction Unmarried mothers Fiction Parent-child relationship Fiction Child custody Fiction Louisiana Fiction Louisiana Louisiana Fiction PR9619.4.A4424 H35 2020 823/.92 Alexander, Kirsten, 1964- 9781538700563 1538700565 2019957155 DAD 191213 20241106135239.0 21335669 eng