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Submitted By: Kimberly ann alcazaren iii-lavoisier

submitted to: mrs. Rizalina barruela teacher

I. Title of the book: Lost and found II. Author and authors background Biography:

Jacqueline Sheehan
Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a fiction writer and essayist. She is also a practicing psychologist. She is a New Englander through and through, but spent twenty years living in the western states of Oregon, California, and New Mexico doing a variety of things, including house painting, freelance photography, newspaper writing, clerking in a health food store, and directing a traveling troupe of high school puppeteers.

Her first novel, Truth, was published in 2003 by Free Press of Simon and Schuster. Her second novel, Lost & Found, was published 2007 by Avon, Harper Collins. Lost & Found has been on the New York Times Bestseller List and has been optioned for film by Katherine Heigl, star of Greys Anatomy. Her third novel, Now & Then, was published in July 2009 by Avon, Harper Collins. She has published travel articles (Winter in Soviet Georgia), short stories (most recently in the Berkshire Review), and numerous essays and radio pieces. In 2005, she was the editor of the anthology Women Writing in Prison. This anthology is the culmination of eight years of writing workshops sponsored by Voices from Inside, an advocacy group for incarcerated women. Jacqueline teaches workshops at Grub Street in Boston and Writers in Progress in Florence, Massachusetts.

III. Place and Date of Publication Publication Date:

 Text Copyright 2007 by Jacqueline Sheehan. Published by HarperCollins Publishers and Avon. Printed in the United States of America.

IV. Setting of the story  The story is set in Massachusetts where she lived with her husband and
also on Peaks Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine.

V. Characters Main Characters:

 Rocky- A psychologist. Her husband Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor and her world changed.  Lloyd/Copper- A large black Labrador retriever. Rocky saw him with a primitive arrow sticking out of his shoulder. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and a wounded, lovable beast.

Supporting Characters:
 Bob- Rockys husband who died.  Tess- a woman with synesthesia Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are merged so that the detection of each is mismatched. A person who had it sees numbers or letters with colors on it.  Melissa- a girl who has an anorexia that rocky has a strong connection with her.  Isaiah and Charlotte- allowed Rocky to rent a cottage near the ocean  Hill- the archery instructor

VI. Plot

Roxanne and Bob Pellegrino met through swimming. She pulled him off the bottom of the pool and he always joked that he'd married a woman who could save him. It was a phrase which was to haunt Roxanne after he collapsed on the bathroom floor. Despite applying CPR she couldn't save him. Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor and Rocky's world changed forever. Distraught with grief in the months afterwards she left her home, Quitting her job, chopping off all her hair, she leaves Massachusetts reinventing her past and taking a job as Animal Control Warden on Peak's Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine and a million miles away from everything she's lost. On the basis that you don't have to say that you're a widow until you're ready, she invented a past which didn't include Bob and her failure to save him. Running away was probably not the best thing to do but how can a psychologist help others when she's drowning in her own problems? She went as far east as she could to a small island half remembered from childhood, determined to keep herself to herself, not to allow anything to touch her. But in the way of small communities they did. Isaiah, the director of public works on the island, and his wife Charlotte allow her to rent a cottage near the ocean. The dog, whom she dubs Lloyd, helps Rocky open her heart to accept new friends on the island. The first is the clever Tess, a synesthete, who has the wonderful ability to attribute colors to numbers and smells to sounds, heightening her already-acute sense of the world. Next, Rocky stumbles upon Melissa, a rail-thin young

woman whose tightly-skinned face and baggy track suits all the better to mask the clatter of her bones screams out to Rocky about the disorder plaguing her. Melissa is the type of young girl she assiduously avoided in her practice, part of an unhappy army of girls, defined by skin, bones and grit. Then there is Hill, the archery instructor Rocky is compelled to search out, driven by the hand-made arrowhead she found embedded into Lloyds canine musculature, awakens her professional instincts. Lloyd enters Rocky's world with a primitive arrow sticking out of his shoulder. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and a wounded, lovable beast. It's Rocky who nurses him back to health after surgery, who helps him to come to terms with the obvious mental trauma he's suffered and who lets the dog touch her heart. The mysterious injury drives her on a quest to unravel that which happened to his missing owner and how that arrow came to be lodged in his shoulder leads Rocky to an archery instructor who draws her in even as she finds every reason to mistrust him. The dog becomes her canine companion in overcoming her depression. After all she had been through with Lloyd who accompanies her in overcoming her depression; she discovers the life-altering revelation that grief can be transformed and joy does exist in unexpected places.