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We DisappearScott Heim
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We Disappear

320 pagesFirst published 20087 editions
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The body of a teenage boy is discovered in a Kansas field. The murder haunts Donna—a recent widow battling cancer—calling forth troubling details from long-suppressed memories of her past. Hoping to discover more about "disappeared" people, she turns to her son, Scott, who is fighting demons of his own. Addicted to methamphetamines and sleeping pills, Scott is barely holding on—though the chance to help his mother in her strange and desperate search holds out a slim promise of some small salvation. But what he finds is a boy named Otis handcuffed in a secret basement room, and the questions…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionHarperCollins Publishers2009—9780061861758
EditionHarperCollins Publishers2008—9780061581014
EditionHarperCollins Publishers2008—9780061581021
EditionHarperCollins Publishers2008—9780061660689
EditionHarperCollins Publishers2008—9780061580994
EbookHarperCollins2008—9780061580987
PaperbackHarper Perennial20083209780061468971
Cancer patientsCompulsive behaviorDrug addictsFamiliesMissing childrenMothers and sonsFictionPsychololgical fiction