Books like We Disappear by Scott Heim
When a teenage boy’s body is discovered in a Kansas field, the ripple of grief reaches Donna, a recent widow who is also battling cancer. She finds herself haunted by unsettling memories of her past and driven to understand what happened to the vanished. In her desperation, she turns to her son, Scott, who is fighting his own demons—methamphetamine and sleeping‑pill addiction—and struggles to stay afloat. As Donna and Scott dig deeper, they uncover a boy named Otis locked in a secret basement, revealing a chilling pattern of missing teens that reaches into Scott himself. The story follows Donna’s battle with illness and grief while Scott confronts the substance abuse that threatens to destroy him, all while the fate of those who have disappeared draws ever closer.
First publish date: February 26, 2008
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Queer Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Scott Heim
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