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raccoon

(31,423 posts) Tue Mar 24, 2015, 07:38 AM Mar 2015

Can someone help me with the name of this novel? It starts around 1960, with a divorced **SPOILERS*

woman and her son and daughter moving to a new neighborhood. A neighbor boy becomes a close friend.

The divorced woman's son disappeared and is never found.

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Decades later, his remains are found in a forgotten fallout shelter in the neighborhood.

Anyone read this book?

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Can someone help me with the name of this novel? It starts around 1960, with a divorced **SPOILERS* (Original Post) raccoon Mar 2015 OP

kind of sounds like The Lovely Bones but, that was about a girl and I think it was set more in the Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2015 #1

I read that one too. Thanks. When I google I get a bunch of info about fallout shelters. nt raccoon Mar 2015 #2

UPDATE: I found it! Is This Tomorrow: A Novel by Caroline Leavitt. nt raccoon Mar 2015 #3

well, there you go ... google, I assume. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2015 #4

Yeah, I entered a character's first name, some other stuff, and hit on Google books. nt raccoon Mar 2015 #5

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

1. kind of sounds like The Lovely Bones but, that was about a girl and I think it was set more in the

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 07:50 AM

Mar 2015

90's ....

Good luck

raccoon

(31,423 posts)

2. I read that one too. Thanks. When I google I get a bunch of info about fallout shelters. nt

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 07:54 AM

Mar 2015

raccoon

(31,423 posts)

3. UPDATE: I found it! Is This Tomorrow: A Novel by Caroline Leavitt. nt

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 07:57 AM

Mar 2015

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

4. well, there you go ... google, I assume.

Reply to raccoon (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 08:05 AM

Mar 2015

raccoon

(31,423 posts)

5. Yeah, I entered a character's first name, some other stuff, and hit on Google books. nt

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 09:17 AM

Mar 2015

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