01786cam a2200265 4500 43642963 TxAuBib 20051123120000.0 151217s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781931561723 hardcover : alk. paper 1931561729 hardcover : alk. paper TxAuBib Ward, Amanda Eyre. How to be lost / by Amanda Eyre Ward. San Francisco, CA : MacAdam/Cage, 2004. 290 p ; 21 cm. Joseph and Isabelle Winters seem to have it all: a grand home in Holt, New York, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they are safe in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the family are exposed: Joseph, once a successful businessman, succumbs to his demons; Isabelle retreats into memories of her debutante days in Savannah; and Ellie’s bereft sisters grow apart–Madeline reluctantly stays home, while Caroline runs away. Fifteen years later, Caroline, now a New Orleans cocktail waitress, sees a photograph of a woman in a magazine. Convinced that it is Ellie all grown up, Caroline embarks on a search for her missing sister. Armed with copies of the photo, an amateur detective guide, and a cooler of Dixie beer, Caroline travels through the New Mexico desert, the mountains of Colorado, and the smoky underworld of Montana, determined to salvage her broken family. Missing persons Fiction. Women travelers Fiction. Waitresses Fiction. Sisters Fiction. New Orleans (La) Fiction. Psychological fiction. Contemporary fiction.