Where Things Come Back Just when seventeen year old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town it all disappears In the summer before Cullen s senior year a nominally d
Just when seventeen year old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town, it all disappears In the summer before Cullen s senior year, a nominally depressed birdwatcher named John Barling thinks he spots a species of woodpecker thought to be extinct since the 1940s in Lily, Arkansas His rediscovery of the so calleJust when seventeen year old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town, it all disappears In the summer before Cullen s senior year, a nominally depressed birdwatcher named John Barling thinks he spots a species of woodpecker thought to be extinct since the 1940s in Lily, Arkansas His rediscovery of the so called Lazarus Woodpecker sparks a flurry of press and woodpecker mania Soon all the kids are getting woodpecker haircuts and everyone s eating Lazarus burgers But as absurd as the town s carnival atmosphere has become, nothing is startling than the realization that Cullen s sensitive, gifted fifteen year old brother Gabriel has suddenly and inexplicably disappeared While Cullen navigates his way through a summer of finding and losing love, holding his fragile family together, and muddling his way into adulthood, a young missionary in Africa, who has lost his faith, is searching for any semblance of meaning wherever he can find it As distant as the two stories seem at the start, they are thoughtfully woven ever closer together and through masterful plotting, brought face to face in a surprising and harrowing climax Complex but truly extraordinary, tinged with melancholy and regret, comedy and absurdity, this novel finds wonder in the ordinary and emerges as ultimately hopeful It s about a lot than what Cullen calls, that damn bird It s about the dream of second chances.
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John Corey Whaley
JOHN COREY WHALEY grew up in the small town of Springhill, Louisiana, where he learned to be sarcastic and to tell stories He has a B.A in English from Louisiana Tech University, as well as an M.A in Secondary English Education He started writing stories about aliens and underwater civilizations when he was around ten or eleven, but now writes realistic YA fiction which sometimes includes zombies He taught public school for five years and spent much of that time daydreaming about being a full time writer and dodging his students crafty projectiles He is terrible at most sports, but is an occasional kayaker and bongo player He is obsessed with movies, music, and traveling to new places He is an incredibly picky eater and has never been punched in the face, though he has come quite close One time, when he was a kid, he had a curse put on him by a strange woman in the arcade section of a Wal Mart His favorite word is defenestration His favorite color is green His favorite smell is books He currently splits his time between Louisiana and Los Angeles Where Things Come Back is his first novelGGIN, his second novel, is out on April 8, 2014.