Journey for Three

By Isabelle Holland

It is the autumn of 1999. A year has passed since Lucy Darby's unexpected death, leaving her husband David and son Whitley to mend the gaping hole in their lives. David, a trauma-site cleanup technician, spends his nights expunging the violent remains of strangers, helping their families to move on, though he is unable to do the same. Whitley--an 11-year-old social pariah known simply as The Kid--hasn't spoken since his mother's death. Instead, he communicates through a growing collection of notebooks, living in a safer world of his own silent imagining. As the impending arrival of Y2K casts a shadow of uncertainty around them, their own precarious reality begins to implode. Questions pertaining to the events of Lucy's death begin to haunt David, while The Kid, who still believes his mother is alive, enlists the help of his small group of misfit friends to bring her back. As David continues to lose his grip on reality and The Kid's sense of urgency grows, they begin to uncover truths that will force them to confront their deepest fears about each other and the wounded family they are trying desperately to save.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883752018
• ISBN13: 9780883752012
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Xerox Family Education Services
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

journey for three

Alison Cairn has led a desperately interesting life. Her parents wandered the world with a group of devout impractical Christian Missionaries, most of whom died along their travels. The survivors returned to the USA and cannot find a place to send elevan year old Alison or the two boys she has raised. In a last hope for a home for the three of them, they are dropped off on her father's cousin. An extremely grumpy hermit bachelor. Alison's battle to keep her 'family' together is a page turner and deeply moving. It will make you laugh and cry. As Alison's father told her. "With God, anything is possible."