Do not Become Alarmed

Locations
Call Number: Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Meloy, Maile
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Pittsfield Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Meloy, Maile	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Read by the author.
"From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation--and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop buffet and the independence they have at the Kids' Club. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor misfortunes leads the families farther and farther from the ship's safety. One minute the children are there, and the next they're gone. What follows is a riveting, revealing story told from the perspectives of the adults and the children, as the once-happy parents--now turning on one another and blaming themselves--try to recover their children and their lives. Celebrated for her ability to write vivid, spare, moving fiction, Maile Meloy shows how quickly the life we count on can fall away, and how a crisis changes everyone's priorities. The fast-paced, gripping plot of Do Not Become Alarmed carries with it an insightful, provocative examination of privilege, race, guilt, envy, the dilemmas of modern parenthood, and the challenge of living up to our own expectations"-- Provided by publisher.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review
Booklist Review
Publishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Excerpt
Author Notes

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

good submitted by Judeyblu on July 29, 2017, 9:58pm Part Lost, part Lord of the Flies, part surreal-this-can't-be-happening!
Three families, with six children among them, are on a cruise.
What begins as a day trip to a zip line turns into three families searching for their lost children.
The journey to reunite the families takes twists and turns that keep the reader engaged and breathless.
Very good.

Not a good reader submitted by pdickerson86 on December 11, 2017, 6:33am The reader has a lisp and makes if very hard to concentrate o n the story