The Missing One

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The Missing One by Lucy Atkins follows Kali and her toddler son on an impulsive trip to Canada after the death of her mother. Kali is trying to find out more about her mother's life around the time she (Kali) was born. I was initially rather put off this book because the lack of contractions in the main narrative made the reading experience feel stilted. But I was interested enough in Kali and her story to keep going for a while. My attention started drifting towards the halfway point, though, as the whole started to feel repetitive and over-wrought, while at the same time not seeming to be going anywhere particularly interesting.