Chasing fireflies : a novel of discovery / Charles Martin.
When paradmedics are called to scene of a burning car, they find a six-year-old boy in the nearby ditch. His mother is dead, no one knows who he is, and he isn't talking. Wearing only cut-off jeans and clutching a sketch pad, he's malnourished, small for his age, and covered in scars showing years of physical abuse. When Seth--a small town journalist raised by foster parents--steps onto the courthouse steps after a week-long stint in jail for trespassing, he is immediately met by his editor and assigned to write about this young boy. Growing up fatherless himself, Seth is drawn to the story and seeks to uncover the child's past. But by digging into the boy's past, Seth is digging back into his own long-buried emotions. Who am I? As he works to discover the boy's identity, he also finds the answer to the question that got him thrown in jail in the first place--the story of his own history and the father who gave up everything to get him back.
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- ISBN: 9781595540560
- ISBN: 1595540563
- ISBN: 9781595543257
- ISBN: 1595543252
- Physical Description: 342 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 2007.
- Copyright: ©2007
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