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Oct 21, 2013
"Long-deceased persons have been showing up, hale and hearty, all over the globe, causing consternation among folks who worry who's going to feed and clothe them. Jacob Hargrave died on his eighth birthday in 1966, but an agent of the bureau tasked with reuniting returned persons with their families has shown up on the Hargrave doorstep decades later, 8-year-old Jacob in tow. Jacob's parents, now in their eighties, must learn to navigate a strange new reality even as the world around them struggles with questions that range from the spiritual to the political. A great "what-if" novel, The Returned is a "beautiful meditation on what it means to be human" (Booklist)." Fiction A to Z October 2013 newsletter http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=5acc8fc1-4e91-4ebe-906d-f8fc5e82a8e0&N=691547