![]() When he disappeared, the children's father left behind his notebook full of research, which Laureth steals one afternoon to read, trying to determine where her father has gone. ![]() To compensate for his writer's block, Laureth's father has been madly researching coincidences – the famous thinkers who have considered them, famous coincidences, really, any factual evidence relating to the coincidence. The family has just been torn apart by the strange disappearance of their father, a famous writer who has been struggling with writer's block for months. Sixteen-year-old Laureth and her seven-year-old brother, Benjamin, live with their mother in London. Because of this, there are no visual details in the book Sedgwick focuses on the smells, sounds, tastes, and feelings of Laureth's journey to convey her story. To add to the drama of the book, Laureth is blind, and her seven-year-old brother is her guide. ![]() ![]() The book is part thriller and part realistic fiction, and though the character of Laureth's father is gone for most of the novel, he appears in notebook fragments that Laureth reads to understand his research on coincidences, which seem to be the cause of his sudden disappearance. She is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgewick is a young adult novel about sixteen-year-old Laureth, who journeys with her seven-year-old brother to America from their home in London to find their father, who has gone missing in New York City. ![]()
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