I recently saw a meme (see #3) that brought back memories of working at Taylor’s bookstore during college. Whenever a customer mentioned they’d seen a book on Oprah, we’d pull out our microfiche (remember those?) and search for books mentioned on a recent show.
These days, you’d think finding a book whose title you’d
forgotten would be one Google search away.
It wasn't.
When I typed “novel about a boy who lives with his
celebrity father for the summer,” the top search results were links to the
movie Secondhand Lions and the book Beautiful Boy. The third
result was a link to an article
entitled “Finding a book when you’ve forgotten it’s title.” Thanks, Google.
Thinking I may have read this book when we lived in
Ann Arbor, I went to the Ann Arbor Library catalog and searched for divorce,
dysfunctional families, and movie star fathers. No dice. Then I tried the “Authors
similar to” lists on Goodreads. Matthew Norman, Jonathan Tropper, and Tom
Perrotta. Nope.
After these fruitless searches, I created a post on this
forum.
Less than 24 hours later, the mystery was solved. Thanks to Brenna, who correctly identified the book as Blind Sight by Meg Howrey. Since I love Howrey’s other books, I hope it will be as good as I remember.
(Incidentally,
her book The Wanderers does have stars on the cover.)
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