Descent : a novel
(Book)

"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited"--Title page verso.

"Descent is the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life? In the weeks and months that follow, hope leads to disillusionment, and each of them--father, mother, son--withdraws into emotional isolation, individually assessing the blame and assuming the responsibility for their collective loss."--,Provided by publisher.