Carthage

<p><em><strong>New York Times</strong></em><strong> Bestselling Author</strong></p><p>A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family in this stirring examination of grief faith justice and the atrocities of war the latest from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates</p></p> <p>Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's frantic search for the girl they discover instead the unlikeliest of suspects--a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever.<br /><br /><em>Carthage</em> plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young Corporal haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression while unraveling the story of a disaffected young girl whose exile from her family may have come long before her disappearance.<br /><br />Dark and riveting <em>Carthage</em> is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon one that explores the human capacity for violence love and forgiveness and asks if it's ever truly possible to come home again.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> </p></p>