Hello Lovelies!
Shelf Control is a weekly celebration of the unread books on our shelves created and hosted by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies. Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up!
It is time for Shelf Control round three! This week is a book I picked out myself.
Origin
Author(s): Diana Abu-Jaber
Published: 2007 (W. W. Norton and Company)
Length: 384
Goodreads Synopsis: “A fingerprint expert’s investigation of a series of crib deaths leads her back to the mystery of her own childhood. Lena is a fingerprint expert at a crime lab in the small city of Syracuse, New York, where winters are cold and deep. Suddenly, a series of crib deaths—indistinguishable from SIDS except for the fevered testimony of one distraught mother with connections in high places—draws the attention of the police and the national media and raises the possibility of the inconceivable: could there be a serial infant murderer on the loose? Orphaned as a child, out of place as an adult, gifted with delicate and terrifying powers of intuition, Lena finds herself playing a critical role in the case. But then there is the mystery of her own childhood to solve… Could the improbable deaths of a half-dozen babies be somehow connected to her own improbable survival?”
How and When I got it:
I really think I picked up this book in high school! The crazy part is it is an advanced reader’s edition so I know I didn’t buy it but I think it was part of a book giveaway either at the school library or the bookstore downtown. I remember picking it because it featured Arab-American characters but beyond that, I’m a little fuzzy. I think it will be a while before I pick this one up honestly. While my tiny one will be one this month, SIDS still terrifies me. Once she is older I hope I’ll feel more comfortable so I suspect this book will follow me the next time we move.
Stay Safe and Warm
Sounds fascinating — but I hear you about waiting until your little one is older before reading it. When my daughter was younger, I really struggled with books that had anything to do with bad things happening to children — just way too vivid a fear at that point in our lives.