Book Review: ‘Eden’ Looks At Two Girls Lives After A Frightening Childhood Abduction

Two young teenage girls Hope and Eden are abducted on there way to meet their father for his weekend with them. When a man named Larry shows up and says their dad sent him to get them they are skeptical but agree to go with him. They shouldn’t have. It shapes the rest of their lives going forward.

Forward twenty years and Hope is living in New York as a playwright with not much success. She loses her apartment and her job is very slow and has little money. On top of that her mom has died and she has to go take care of that. While there she gets a letter from the District Attorney in DC about Larry and that he is up for probation. They want to know if she and Eden have anything else they want to tell him about what happened all those years ago in an effort to keep him in jail.

Hope has no idea where Eden is but goes and meets with the DA and see her father. What happens next is a search for Eden that takes Hope on a journey through her life and flashbacks to that horrible time and what happened after that to both her Eden and how it shaped them to today.

It’s a real page-turner of a story about how something bad can affect your whole live without getting the help and expressing your feelings about it. An emotional tale of survival and how family can be there for you if you just let them.

Eden from Andrea Kleine is in stores on Tuesday, July 10 from Houghton Mifflin.