Some days it isn't worth chewing through the restraints

Just finished Michelle Richmond's "Year of Fog." Excellent read! Wanted to carry it with me everywhere so I could read it nonstop. One of the books I found in a used bookstore in Cambridge. Abby Mason - photographer - is planning to marry Jake and become the stepmother of Emma. In a perfect world! It's a foggy day in San Fran and she and Emma are walking the beach looking for sand dollars and suddenly Emma wants to pull away and rush ahead to look on her own. Abby glances down and sees a dead seal and the few seconds she takes to snap some pictures is all it takes for Emma to disappear. Months of searching.......Abby won't give up. Even when everyone else has she continues. Her memory of that day is the only thing that can makes a difference. It leads her on a bizarre trip to another continent. Wonderful story.