Lost in the Moment and Found

Hardcover, 160 pages

Published Jan. 10, 2023 by Tordotcom.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-21363-1

(1 review)

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found. Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you'll find it here. If you ever wondered about a favorite toy from childhood... it's probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore this time you'd keep safe? You guessed it.... Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He's not in the Shop, and she'll never see him again. But when Antsy finds herself lost (literally, this time), she discovers that however many doors open for her, leaving the Shop for good might not be as simple as it sounds. And stepping through those doors exacts a price. Lost in the Moment and Found tells us that childhood and …

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found. Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you'll find it here. If you ever wondered about a favorite toy from childhood... it's probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore this time you'd keep safe? You guessed it.... Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He's not in the Shop, and she'll never see him again. But when Antsy finds herself lost (literally, this time), she discovers that however many doors open for her, leaving the Shop for good might not be as simple as it sounds. And stepping through those doors exacts a price. Lost in the Moment and Found tells us that childhood and innocence, once lost, can never be found.

3 editions

Annie the Book reviewed Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #8)

Lost in the Moment and Found, by Seanan McGuire

5 stars

All lost things have to go somewhere. Most of the time, it’s behind or under furniture, or in your other pair of pants, or left behind, or eaten by the dog. But what about the things that we never end up finding, even after we find a replacement (how I usually find things I’ve lost)? Seanan McGuire’s Lost in the Moment and Found, the eighth installment of the Wayward Children series of novellas, proposes that the things we lose and never find end up on the other side of a door, in an infinite junk shop. Our protagonist, Antsy, even manages to find her lost sense of safety in the junk shop...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.