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Original Title:	We Disappear
ISBN:	0061468975 (ISBN13: 9780061468971)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Lambda Literary Award for Gay General Fiction (2008)

We Disappear Paperback | Pages: 293 pages

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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 that arise seem too disturbing even to contemplate. With his mother's health rapidly deteriorating, he must surrender to his own obsession, and unravel Otis's unsettling connections to other missing teens . . . and, ultimately, to Scott himself.

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Title	:	We Disappear
Author	:	Scott Heim
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 293 pages
Published	:	February 26th 2008 by Harper Perennial (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. LGBT. Gay. Dark

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Beautifully strange and hauntingly moving. Heim manages to perfectly recreate the (paradoxically) comforting and foreign feeling of being in your childhood home as an adult. I was continually surprised at the direction the novel took which, for someone who reads as much as me, is increasingly rare. I was also genuinely moved by the ending. Highly recommended.

Just turned the last page of WE DISAPPEAR, and I feel the same way I've felt stumbling out of a movie theater: tight-throated, raw, reluctant to leave the dark place where I just witnessed life presented in clear, stunning images. Scott Heim can write. I can open almost any page of this novel and find an example that reveals the poet in him -- he has published poetry as well as fiction previously. Not many writers can pull this off, I think, but Heim's images are so apt and so tied to his story,



Viewed through the eyes of a meth addict, returned home to care for his mother in her final days, the Kansas prairie in winter is dark and melancholy. So are the implications of the story she spins out of her mysterious abduction as a young girl and, a week later, her equally baffling release. She is obsessed with the missing, the disappeared, and with finding Warren, the young boy with whom she was held.Scott Heim's first novel, 1995's Mysterious Skin, was an auspicious debut (adapted to the

I read "Mysterious Skin" possibly when I was still in high school and really liked it. It was a fresh and different take on gay men's fiction (amidst a lot of boring coming out stories) and it was hard hitting and emotional and interesting."We Disappear" is Heim's first book in a while, and it seems to have emerged from the success of the film version of "Mysterious Skin."It handles a mother-son relationship in a refreshing way for gay fiction (it's not really about sexual orientation

This LONG-awaited third novel from Scott Heim did not live up expectations...well, at least not my own. It's premise was promising, and sounded like classic Scott Heim (if you can use the word "classic" on someone who had only written 2 novels and one book of poetry before). But then it kind of started to meander, like it didn't know where it was going, nor how to get there. This was a deeply personal novel for its author, and I almost wonder if that wasn't maybe a detriment. If he wanted to

We Dissapear is a diquieting novel about subjects rarely addressed in gay fiction, the physical and mental decline of a parent, child abduction, and repressed memories. However, despite the intriguing premise of the book I found myself disconnected from the plot and the main characters.