Ostensibly searching for her father, Chrissy actually plans to visit her third-grade teacher (Dave Cloud), who has been corresponding with her online, and who turns out to be a shambling, desperate mess.

NEWYORKER: The Wolf Knife

Fred Waitzkin is the author of Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess, and he has recently completed a first novel, The Dream Merchant.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Her father told jurors he was warned by police to stop searching Oxford late at night looking for his daughter and claimed officers knew where she had been.

BBC: Court sketch of defandants

Akbar had been deaf to political evil, and when he dies searching for his missing daughter, a probable victim of religious zealotry, Ismaiel realises that he has relied on his father as much as the impaired man depended on him.

ECONOMIST: Novels from the Netherlands