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My Abandonment (), a novel by American author Peter Rock, is a fictionalized retelling of the true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Caroline in a forested region of Oregon. Caroline is abducted by her father at an early age and raised in a cave with basic food and water provisions. Eventually growing curious about civilization, Caroline also enjoys and affirms her nomadic identity. My Abandonment. () "Peter Rock's My Abandonment is mesmerizing and disturbing, a book as fierce as it is tender, as tender as it is real." "This beautiful, strange novel takes us into the foreign country where those called homeless are at home, the city is . In Peter Rock’s My Abandonment a thirteen year old girl named Caroline lives with her father in Forest Park. Caroline’s father is not mentally stable but helps Caroline live a life that she will remember. Caroline and her father live in the woods all alone aloof from society. .

My Abandonment, by Peter Rock (), is the story of thirteen-year-old Caroline and her www.doorway.ru live in Forest Park, a huge wilderness area in Portland, Oregon. They live in a homemade cave. My Abandonment. 1. When the book opens, Caroline and Father are scavenging scrap metal from a junk yard. " 'You see, Caroline,' Father says, 'all the work I'm doing here for these people, organizing all these different things. This is how we are paying them back for what we're taking' " (p. 4). Why is it important to Father to. My Abandonment. Peter Rock. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Apr 2, - Fiction - pages. 25 Reviews. NOW A MAJOR FILM, LEAVE NO TRACE, DIRECTED BY DEBRA GRANIK AND STARRING BEN FOSTER AND THOMASIN HARCOURT MCKENZIE. A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon.

My Abandonment (), a novel by American author Peter Rock, is a fictionalized retelling of the true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Caroline in a forested region of Oregon. Caroline is abducted by her father at an early age and raised in a cave with basic food and water provisions. Eventually growing curious about civilization, Caroline also enjoys and affirms her nomadic identity. Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. His most recent novel is The Night Swimmers, which involves open water swimming, fatherhood, psychic photography and the use of isolation tanks as a means to inhabit the past. He is also the author of the novels SPELLS, Klickitat, The Shelter Cycle, My Abandonment, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves and This Is the Place, as well as a story collection, The Unsettling. My Abandonment. by Peter Rock. 1. When the book opens, Caroline and Father are scavenging scrap metal from a junk yard. “ ‘You see, Caroline,’ Father says, ‘all the work I’m doing here for these people, organizing all these different things. This is how we are paying them back for what we’re taking’ ” (p. 4).