Carthage

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-17 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK A young girl’s disappearance rocks a community and a family. in this stirring examination of grief. faith. justice and the atrocities of war. from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates.Zeno Mayfield’s daughter has disappeared into the night. gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks But when the community of Carthage joins a father’s frantic search for the girl. they discover instead the unlikeliest of suspects -. a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero. the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever. ‘Carthage’ plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young Corporal. haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression. while unraveling the story of a disaffected young gi…