Alexander, Kirsten.

Lost boy found / Kirsten Alexander. - 1st Grand Central trade paperback ed. - New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020. - x, 350 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes Reading Group Guide (p. 343-350).

"In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not to give in to despair. Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found in the company of a tramp. But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. And when Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports' own friends, take sides. As the tramp's kidnapping trial begins, and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they'd ever dreamed"--Publisher.



ISBN: 9781538700563

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Missing children
Mistaken identity
Kidnapping
Tramps
Unmarried mothers
Parent and child
Custody of children

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.92