Searching for my Missing Father: An American Noir

by Allison Drew

Overview

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Allison Drew's frail, ninety-one-year-old father Tom Drew vanishes without a trace from his Salisbury, Connecticut home in July 2007. His caregiver claims he left his house on foot. Despite massive searches, he is not found.

Seeking to discover what happened to her father, Allison embarks on a brutalizing psychological journey leading her to America's eroded democratic institutions. When she criticizes the police handling of the disappearance, she is arrested for criminal trespass of her father's home. Dragged into the criminal justice system, denied her right to trial, she sees and feels the system's injustices.

Allison's memoir unravels the threads binding small towns and their police in a cocoon of silence. A forensic examination of the police investigation into her father's vanishing, it is also a study of prejudice through the prism of dementia and an exploration of the emotional impact of a missing relative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684335374
Publisher:	Black Rose Writing
Publication date:	07/23/2020
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Born in New York City, Allison Drew divides her time between New York and York, England. She has a PhD from UCLA and is professor emerita at the University of York and honorary professor at the University of Cape Town. She has published five scholarly books on anti-apartheid and anti-colonial movements in South Africa and Algeria. She loves animals, rambling in the countryside and singing. Find out more at https://allisondrew.org/.

Editorial Reviews

“Allison Drew’s harrowing tale of her father’s disappearance in rural Connecticut reveals the collusion of police and local interests and their willingness to blame the outsider.” –Elaine Mokhtefi, memoirist, Algiers, Third World Capital

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