Before Familiar Woods, Ian Pisarcik
Before Familiar Woods, Ian Pisarcik
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Before Familiar Woods
A Novel

Author: Ian Pisarcik

Narrator: Susan C. Hunter

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/13/2020


Synopsis

On the outskirts of a town too tired for its own happenings, the boys were found dead inside a tent.Three years later, their fathers have disappeared too.Ruth Fenn's son was the boy they blamed. For three years, Ruth has accepted her lot as pariah, focusing on her ailing mother and the children left in her care by the struggling single parents of North Falls, Vermont. But now the additional loss of her husband is too much to bear, and she has no choice but to overcome the darkness or be consumed by it. But as she edges closer to the truth, she begins to uncover some secrets that are better left buried.That's when she meets Milk Raymond, a war vet who comes home to find his nine-year-old son abandoned by his mother. Unable to find work, with no idea how to be a father, Milk turns to Ruth for help. But as the mystery of Ruth's missing husband deepens, the fragile stability Milk has created for Daniel is shattered by the ill-fated return of Daniel's mother, who will stop at nothing to get her boy back.As these unsettled and interconnected lives hurtle towards a devastating conclusion, both Ruth and Milk are about to learn that their dying Vermont town has more secrets than they ever thought possibleand there are those who will do anything to protect them.

About Ian Pisarcik

Ian Pisarcik is an author whose poems and stories have appeared in Roanoke Review, Lullwater Review, Maine Review, and Flyway Journal of Writing and Environment. Born and raised in rural New England, he currently resides with his wife and their Labrador Retriever in the state of Washington.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea

"She wondered where the boy's mother was-whether she was fighting for him or even looking for him. And then she thought of Elam and of Mathew, and how a person could be lost and still not missing, or else missing and not lost-and how she wasn't sure which of those was worse." Fellow readers, this deb......more

Fantastic Storytelling! Two boys go camping in the woods and are never seen alive again. Three years later their fathers disappear. How are the these events connected and what has happened to trigger both of these mysteries? Along comes a young Iraq war veteran who arrives home to find his eight year......more

I caution any reader considering this book on what to expect. The less you follow the plot summary the better. If you are a mystery or thriller lover and you go into reading this expecting that genre, you will be disappointed. If you're looking for a dark, atmospheric story set in small town Vermont......more