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"The fortune teller and her grandfather went to New York City on an Amtrak train,
racketing along with their identical, peaky white faces set due north."
So begins this wonderful novel of family ties, bound and lost. Justine, who
disgraces her family by making her living as a fortuneteller, accompanies her proud,
crotchety, and hard-of-hearing grandfather on a quest. Daniel Peck is searching
for his half-brother, Caleb. The musical black sheep of the long-established
Baltimore Peck family, Caleb has been missing since 1912. Justine, married to
her first cousin, Duncan Peck, another black sheep who restlessly moves them from town to
town, discovers that foretelling the future and knowing how to live in it are two
different things.
SEARCHING FOR CALEB takes on a life of its own, changing Justine in small but immutable
ways. This is a lighthearted but ultimately profound novel about the infinite
personal choices we all make in search of our futures. It's a compelling and
heartfelt story of families and the individuals trying to find their places within the
familial framework, divided between the curse of destiny and the gift of free will.
---Reviewed by Jami Edwards
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