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Non-fiction: The Missing Among Us and three other titles


Non-fiction: The Missing Among Us and three other titles
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By Steven Carroll
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Erin Stewart’s examination of missing persons could easily have been another example of true-crime writing. But it’s the philosophical dimension that makes it so much more than that. She’s interested in the concept of what it is to be “missing” (to be missing, you have to be missed), ambiguity and living with uncertainty – so many of the cases are never “solved” and can be read in varying ways. Some get huge attention, such as Madeleine McCann, others go under the radar. Class, race and ethnic factors come into play – missing children from disadvantaged homes are often depicted as the victims of neglectful parenting. Stewart interviewed people around the world, and the result is a poised meditation that draws on the most unlikely sources, such as the paintings of Rene Magritte, and is as much concerned with the question of how we live with not knowing as with the facts of the cases.

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