When Patty Went Away By: Jeannie Burt

Title:  When Patty Went Away
Author:  Jeannie Burt
Published:  Muskrat Press, LLC. Paperback
Reviewed By:  Arlena Dean
Rating: 4
Review:

"When Patty Went Away" by Jeannie Burt was some 'family drama set in the '70's being told from a male POV.  This story has a good plot with a mystery that will bring out some deep  emotions.  The read was of a wheat farmer family (Jack McIntyre) from Walla Walla Valley of northeast Oregon, who  was really having a hard time surviving and the young girl who had run away to Montreal.  Now, I know you are probably wondering how these two comes together but the author really does a good job with each  chapter and it will connect so well to each other that you will find it
hard to put down till the end.  This author's description given of this eastern Oregon region was
really so well done of this  interesting of this farm life.  Be ready for a intriguing, suspenseful read
where you will find the characters so very believable such as Jack, Molly (his wife), Edie (the
daughter), and Patty Pugh (Edie's friend).  You will find that each one of the characters have their
own story.  In the story we will find that a young girl has disappeared under 'sinister circumstances.'  Why is it that it seemed  no one seems to care and then their is Jack who feels that he must go look for her and bring her back home? What all with happen as "Jack set out on an uncertain journey which lands him in the underbelly of Montreal, where he encounters a world he could never imagine."

 "When Patty went away and there was nobody to look for her, I finally saw that the world's going somewhere I don't understand, somewhere I don't want it to go, somewhere I can't hold on to."
This says it all and to fully understand this quote and so much more you must pick up "When Patty
Went Away" to see how this author will bring it all out to the reader.  Would I recommend this novel?   Yes!