The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard centers around the kidnapping of a three-year-old boy, Ben and its effects upon his family. He is abducted from a crowded Chicago hotel lobby where his mother, Beth Cappadora, takes him and his two siblings for her high-school reunion. Beth tries every possible thing before she accepts the truth that Ben is not coming back. Beth goes into a terrible emotionless state in which she neglects her surviving two children - oldest child Vincent and a baby daughter, Kerry. After nine years have passed, a miracle happens: Beth opens her door to find a boy. Read it for an engaging story of traumatic loss and its effects on individuals and families, about motherhood and family relationships.
