Cammie McGovern: Local Author Visits Marlborough Bookstore May 23, 2007

Discover powerful story of the tender and complex
bond between a mother and her young son at:
7:00 PM, May 23 at Borders, Marlborough
As children wage mock battles in the playground of Woodside Elementary School two students, a little girl and boy, seem to vanish, last seen heading across the soccer field towards the woods behind the school. Hours pass and then only one of them, Adam, a nine-year-old boy with autism, is found a live, the sole witness to an incomprehensible killing. Barely verbal on the best of days, Adam has retreated into a world that Cara, his mother, knows only too well. With her community in shock and her son unable to help with the police investigation, Cara tries to decode the puzzling events.
When another child goes missing, Cara realizes that only she can unlock her son's silence and interpret the changes in her son's behavior, not only to help him through the trauma, but also to help the police catch a killer. And as she moves closer to exposing the truth, her unsettling past begins to emerge from the shadows. In her desperate desire to protect her child from real life, has she made his world a more dangerous place?
A thrilling novel of psychological suspense and a gripping tale of a crime that strikes at the heart of a small community, Cammie McGovern's heartrending novel is, above all, the powerful story of the tender and complex bond between a mother and her young son.
Mcgovern will read from and sign Eye Contact (Viking) on Wednesday, May 23 at Borders, 739 Donald J. Lynch Blvd., Marlborough. Info: 508.490.8521. The event will run from 7:00 PM until 8:00 PM.
Cammie McGovern was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University, and has received numerous prizes for her short fiction. Her stories have appeared in many magazines including Glamour, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook and Seventeen , and she is the author of another novel, The Art of Seeing . She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with her husband and three children, the eldest of whom is autistic. She is one of the founders of Whole Children, a resource center that runs after-school classes and programs for children with special needs.

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