Love Is a Missing Person

by M.E. Kerr

Book Overview

A child of divorced parents, fifteen-year-old Suzy Slade becomes involved in her loved ones' complex affairs of the heart. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440950708
• ISBN13: 9780440950707
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: Laurel-Leaf by Dell Publishing Co.
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

My favorite of the M.E. Kerr novels!

I've since read that M.E. Kerr was criticized for her unrealistic dialogue and portrayal of the black characters, but I still think this book is wonderful. Its theme is, natch, love, and how it can change you so much that people don't even know you (or, you become a missing person). Suzy watches everybody around her falling in and out of love, and how they change as a result, from Miss Springer, her library supervisor, who has nurtured her love for a man who left town thirty years ago, to her father, falling in love with a woman only a few years older than Suzy herself, to her sister Chicago, who breaks all taboos (this book was published in the seventies) by falling in love with Suzy's co-worker's black boyfriend. Some of them change for the better because of love (Chicago, for example, develops a focus in life and becomes less reactionary just for the sake of attention), some worse (Suzy's father treats his child bride like, well, a child), but everybody becomes a missing person to Suzy. I loved the theme, and I think this book is really an underappreciated work of M.E. Kerr's! Anyone wishing to dicuss M.E. Kerr with me, please feel free to email!