My Abandonment.

Guess what I did today. That's right, read another book. This particular book was My Abandonment by Peter Rock. It's not a true story but the idea came to him from one. He saw a brief article in the Oregonian about a 53 year old man and his 13 year old daughter found living in Forest Park, which is a huge nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. The girl tested above where she was supposed to be for her age level on all of the tests the state gave her as her dad had been "homeschooling" her in the park. There were then two brief updates about the two in the newspaper. Rock took these brief little clips and flushed them out into a very engrossing book. 

It was a quick read, perfect for a flight as it only took me a couple hours to finish. It's told from the viewpoint of the young girl, Caroline. The first 3/4 of the book was completely engrossing but somewhere near the end it started to get weird and I felt like the author was losing me. Also, I'm not really sure he was particularly successful in making me feel like it was a young girl telling the story, the narration was great, but not necessarily believable from a little girl. There was a very unsuspected twist near the end which I loved because it took the book in a completely different direction. Overall though it was an interesting story and I definitely wanted to know how it ended.