I don’t know how to start this review. I liked the book for the most part because Maude, the main character, was persistent in her insistence that her friend Elizabeth was missing although Maude was suffering from severe short term memory lose which I can only suppose was from Alzheimer’s disease.

Maude is the narrator and as you can imagine we share her confusion and lose of time and people and actions along with her but yet Maude remembers the distant past very clearly. Her sister disappeared around 70 years ago and Maude remembers it all.

I believe the author has gotten Maude’s character down very well. The little things like being embarrassed because she can’t remember what she had gone to the store to buy and covering it up by picking up cans of peaches that she just purchased the day before. Writing herself notes because she is only too aware that she forgets things and forgetting whether it is day or night when she looks at the clock and sees that it’s 3:00.

The interesting part of the story is the mystery of what happened to her sister, Sukie, all those years ago and how Maude’s insisting that Elizabeth is missing finally leads to the solution of the disappearance of her sister.