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kleonard 's review for:
The Nowhere Child
by Christian White
The concept is intriguing: an Australian woman is presented with evidence that she is actually an American child who was kidnapped when she was very young. On a journey to find out what happened to her, she travels to the US, where she discovers that her mother was involved in an evangelical snake-handling cult, that her father was in the closet and having a affair with the man who became the prime suspect in her kidnapping, and that numerous old family friends were all involved to some extent. But Kim, the protagonist and sometimes narrator, doesn't seem to have a lick of common sense or critical thinking skills. She takes people at their word, abruptly leaves her job to to to America, and sneaks around trying to figure out who dunnit. While none of the book's characters are particularly deep, Kim's narrated sections are painful to read because of the character's flat aspect and lack of brains. If I hadn't gotten this from netgalley and committed to review it, I'd never have read the whole thing. Overall it both lacks depth and nuance and still manages to be wordy and move slowly.