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Lucy is a baby when she joins the Sandoni clan: Rocco (one of three Sandoni brothers) wins a Buick convertible in a poker game; Rhodi (one of five Sandoni sisters) finds Lucy abandoned in the backseat. Eighteen years later, all six of her Sandoni "aunts" having died, Lucy waits for a sign that it's time to leave the stifling New York household of her domineering "uncles." After all, signs, as Rhodi taught her, are meant to be followed!
So when a fire engulfs the Sandoni Brothers' business, Lucy flees town. She heads west, getting off at Gardenia, Iowa, where the offbeat folk welcome her. The past, however, isn't easy to leave behind. Lucy's deceased aunts pay her regular visits. Lucy also fears that her uncles will track her down. Should she stay in Gardenia or should she push on? And as her old life catches up with her, Lucy feels lost. She'll have to remember that wanting to get lost is often the quickest means of finding your way.
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Meredith Slayton
reviewed Looking for Lucy Buick on January 23, 2014
Looking for Lucy Buick
The second of Rita Murphy's three books about foundling children, and probably the most conventional foundling story; Lucretia Sandoni was found in the backseat of a Buick convertible as a note saying her name was Lucy. So when circumstances align to allow her to fake her death, she takes off to the Midwest in search of 'the Buicks'. Does she seriously think the Buicks are a real family? It's really not clear. The ending implies that she does, though naturally they turn out not to exist.
Like many of Rita Murphy's books, the problem with Looking for Lucy Buick is that it seems to stop halfway through its own story. The various plot threads are resolved - if they are resolved at all - at lightning speed in the last couple of chapters. There's no confrontation with the Sandoni brothers, no clarification as to whether the 'ghosts' Lucy sees are real; it's a shaky resolution to what was otherwise quite a nice little book.
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