Book 05

I've been meaning to read Until I Find You for a long time. John Irving has been one of my favorite authors since I was fourteen or fifteen. He was probably the first contemporary adult novelist that I really got into. My first John Irving book was the stellar A Prayer for Owen Meany, which I've read several times since. His novels are complex, detailed, and deeply personal. When reading his novels, you feel like you're spying on his characters and on him. This feeling is particularly acute in Until I Find You. In the publicity for this novel, Irving revealed that his latest work addresses some issues from his childhood, such as the absence of his father and the fact that he was sexually abused. While disappearing fathers and inappropriate sexual relationships are certainly present in Irving's other works, they take center stage in Until I Find You.