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The Lost Child
Caryl Phillips, professor of English
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
“The Lost Child” is a story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its center is Monica Johnson — cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner — and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in the shadow of the wild moors of the north of England. Phillips intertwines her modern narrative with the childhood of one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys, as he conjures young Heathcliff, the anti-hero of “Wuthering Heights,” and his ragged existence before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family.
