Ry is a regular teen on his way to summer camp. He gets off the train to make a phone call, but the train leaves the station. Granpa is watching the dogs, but takes a bad fall and looses some short term memory. Mom and Dad are on a romantic vacation, when they loose their cell phone and encounter their own challenges. The whole family is in different locations around the world, and out of communication with each other. Ry meets a stranger who helps him. This is the story of a family trying to get back together and the individual journeys that each member must make.
The story was ok. I liked the idea, but the way that each disaster and mistake compounded got old after a while. the lack of frustration and the over all feeling of hope in the face of disaster got a little trying. I kept waiting for at least on e of the characters to give in just a little to despair. It would have made them seem a little more human and realistic. I didn’t like the book, but someone else might. It’s well written and has a unique point of view.
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